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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