dependencies on freetype and fontforge

[Eric Pouech]

Robert Lunnon wrote:
> On Monday 01 May 2006 02:38, Eric Pouech wrote:
> 
>>Robert Lunnon wrote:
>>
>>>Is it really necessary to have hard dependencies on both freetype and
>>>fontforge, configure returns a fail if either of these is missing ? I can
>>>live with a dependency on freetype since Sun supplies this lib but I'd
>>>rather not depend on fontforge, which might not be installed on a target
>>>system
>>
>>that's being worked on, but for the time being fontforge is needed to
>>rebuild the wine fonts. If you don't have it, then you may get some font
>>related issues.
>>
>>A+
> 
> 
> By "Font related issues" per chance do you mean no menu text :-)
it depends the already installed truetype fonts on the system, but that 
can be an outcome
> 
> 
> Well, clearly I can't distribute this way so I'd better muck-in and help fix 
> it, what needs to be done ?
look at the sfd2ttf thread in wine-devel ML

A+
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Eric Pouech