RE: Freetype 1.3.1 - make install

["Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Sorry, I don't know anything about freetype.

Good luck,

Harold

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of camel
> Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 4:52 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com
> Subject: Freetype 1.3.1 - make install
> 
> 
> 
> Well the cywin lists scare me, but I'm going to write this 
> anyway. I'll explain my problem then explain what I've done so far to try
> and fix it.
> 
> As the subject says I'm having problems ~installing~ freetype. I 
> can configure and compile everything just fine. When I run shell>
> make install it just says "make: 'install' is up to date."
> 
> I'm not a developer, so I don't know what I'm looking at in the 
> make files to see what's happening. The reason I am posting here is
> because I cannot find anything on the freetype.org mailing lists 
> about this. (Kind of hard since I can't search their posts.) So I'm
> <gulp> assuming </gulp> it might be something to do with cygwin.
> 
> I have searched through the cygin and cygwin-xfree mailing lists 
> and got some hits for freetype, but I'm not making sense of
> anything it tells me. Only thing I could see is there was a 
> freetype.dll at one time and now it's not supported [?] or was taken out
> [?] All this effort is my quest to get enlightenment to work and 
> the mailing list has gotten me over a few hills so far. ie: shm
> cygipc stuff. That was fun! For a newbie it only took me 
> compiling X 3 times before realizing I didn't run the daemon. :(
> 
> I am ~definitely~ a cygwin newbie, but have many years of *nix 
> under my belt. So please go easy on me. :)
> 
> Thanks for any help!
> If this post belongs somewhere else please let me know.
> 
> ps; I'm also trying to figure out xdm and getting login prompts 
> for other servers. I've never used it before because I mostly just
> use *nix as a server [cmd line]. I have 2 linux and 1 bsd server 
> that I'd love to admin via the cygwin/xfree86. Any referrals to
> good howto or tutorial sites would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> 
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