better user messages

[Andreas Mohr]

On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 12:09:01PM +0200, Ove Kaaven wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 19 May 2002, Francois Gouget wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 19 May 2002, Andreas Mohr wrote:
> > @@ -593,9 +593,9 @@
> >      ft_handle = wine_dlopen("libfreetype.so", RTLD_NOW, NULL, 0);
> >      if(!ft_handle) {
> >          WINE_MESSAGE(
> > -      "Wine cannot find the FreeType font library.  To enable Wine to\n"
> > -      "use TrueType fonts please install a version of FreeType greater than\n"
> > -      "or equal to 2.0.5.\n"
> > +      "Wine could not find the FreeType font library.  To enable Wine to\n"
> > +      "use TrueType fonts please install a version of FreeType\n"
> > +      "(plus devel/header file package) greater than or equal to 2.0.5.\n"
> >        "http://www.freetype.org\n");
> >  	return TRUE;
> >      }
> > 
> > I disagree with this bit. This is printed by the Wine binary and the
> > development libraries and headers are not needed for running Wine. Such
> > a message should instead be printed by the configure script if it
> > detects that FreeType libraries or headers are missing.
> 
> Actually, the development libraries *are* needed, though the headers are
> not. This is because the dlopen tries to load "libfreetype.so", NOT
> "libfreetype.so.6". And, at least on Debian, only the dev package provides
> the libfreetype.so symlink, the library package itself only contains
> libfreetype.so.6. (This issue is Debian bug #146136.)
Ah, thanks for enlightening us ! :-)

(that's probably what prompted me to add this message in the first place)

As it's probably only a Debian specific bug (or isn't it ?),
I think changing the message to include devel stuff is still wrong, though...
(as having devel stuff usually isn't required)

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