note to packagers (new optional dependancy)

Shachar Shemesh sun at consumer.org.il
Thu Aug 15 11:15:31 CDT 2002


Hi all,

A patch just submitted to wine-patches changes the rules when building 
binary packages of WINE for distributions. This is an optional change, 
so ignoring this email will not break anything, but will result in 
decreased functionality.

During the configure phase ./configure will now check for the 
availability of the libfribidi header files. These are typically 
distributed in a package called "libfribidi-dev". I would highly 
recommend installing this library on the machine you compile the package 
on, so as to include the option for BiDi support in the resulting binary.

If the headers are found during compile time, a run time check is 
performed whether the libfribidi library is available. If it is not, 
Wine will continue without BiDi support. If it is, BiDi support will (at 
some future date, admitably) be enabled.

In .deb speak, libfribidi-dev is build recommended for wine src. 
libfribidi is suggested for wine.

                        Shachar





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