Bug 31933

Summary:	recent change to remove libXft dependencies from Requires field is problematic
Product:	xorg	Reporter:	Emanuele Giaquinta <emanuele.giaquinta>
Component:	Lib/Xft	Assignee:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
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Description Emanuele Giaquinta 2010-11-26 03:39:39 UTC

The change in

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXft/commit/?id=8751e341bcc29952b4603e18767ab994653c6b01

seems wrong. The Xft.h public header includes fontconfig/freetype2/xrender headers, and the public Xft api uses fontconfig and xrender types. While it is still fine wrt linking, it is problematic because users of libXft need the correct CPPFLAGS for those libs. Also, one could argue that if the public api exposes fontconfig/xrender symbols to the app, then the lib should support using them.

Comment 1 Alan Coopersmith 2010-11-26 11:13:04 UTC

CPPFLAGS are provided for those libraries due to their inclusion in
Requires.private.

See http://people.freedesktop.org/~dbn/pkg-config-guide.html and the
discussion thread when the patch was reviewed on xorg-devel in
http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2010-September/

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 31267 ***

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