[Python-modules-team] Bug#892436: pygame: Please use 'pkg-config' to find FreeType 2

[René Dudfield]

Thank you very much. That's very helpful.

cheers,

On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 2:08 PM, Hugh McMaster <hugh.mcmaster at outlook.com>
wrote:

> Hi René,
>
> Thanks for looking on this bug.
>
> On Tue, 3 Apr 2018 11:19:20 +0200, René Dudfield wrote:
> > I wonder if you know how portable pkg-config is for this?
> >
> > Will using pkg-config work for getting config on older versions of
> Debian?
> >
> > Or will we have to try and use both of the scripts? freetype-config for
> > older, and pkg-config for newer?
>
> pkg-config has been part of Debian-based distros for many years.
> The current release 0.29-4 is also part of Stretch, with Jessie using
> 0.28-1.
>
> Also, freetype-config has been deprecated for many years, with pkg-config
> being the preferred method of obtaining CFLAGS and libs for several years
> now.
>
> In fact, freetype-config has been a wrapper for pkg-config since February
> 2017.
>
> FreeType has also had pkg-config support since version 2.1.5 was released
> in 2003, so
> pkg-config support is comfortably available everywhere.
>
> In addition, freetype-config(1) has recommended developers use pkg-config
> since March 2014.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Hugh
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