[tex-live] Comment on libfontconfig

[Frank Küster]

Jonathan Kew <jonathan_kew at sil.org> wrote:

> On 4 Oct 2006, at 4:36 pm, Frank Küster wrote:
>>
>>   The inofficial Debian GNU/kFreeBSD port uses the same
>> source package as Debian Linux, therefore it also has so.1.1.0
>
> If this means (as I understand it) that some FreeBSD users have  
> libfontconfig.so.1 and others have libfontconfig.so.3, depending  
> which package they installed, then we do have a problem here. If  
> someone knows how to build without a hard dependency, and find the  
> installed library at runtime, that's fine with me. Otherwise I guess  
> it'll be up to whoever builds FreeBSD binaries for TL to decide what  
> fontconfig package to support.

Yes, those who use Debian GNU/kFreeBSD (which is still quite
experimental) should be able to work around this: either install the
texlive Debian package, or get a standard-BSDish libfontconfig.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)