fontconfig 2.2.0 - Ready for review

Charles Wilson cygwin@cwilson.fastmail.fm
Mon Oct 27 04:25:00 GMT 2003


Harold L Hunt II wrote:

>> The source package:
>>
>> + It configures, builds, ... ok. (The lndir trick is amazing;-)
> 
> 
> Heh... it is a trick I have often used when a package won't let me build 
> out of the source tree.  Others will probably chastise me for it, but it 
> has worked well for me for over two years.

zlib, among others, does this too -- except I use 'shtool mkshadow' 
instead, for portability (even though it is MUCH slower that lndir).

>> - The patch includes the autotools temp directory:
>>   fontconfig-2.2.0/autom4te.cache/


>> BTW, this should be patched in the generic build-script to be excluded
>> when running diff. 

Yeah, I'll do this.

> By the way, what is the policy when making pre-release chagnes like 
> this.  Do most people bump the package number from -1 to -2 or is that 
> why I should be including md5sums?

I normally bump the version number.  So what if the "first released 
version" is cygrel 172.

--
Chuck




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