[Ii2-announce] i-Package updates

[Gerben Wierda]

On May 30, 2008, at 6:11 PM, Gerben Wierda wrote:

>
> On May 30, 2008, at 5:33 PM, Bruno Voisin wrote:
>
>> Le 30 mai 08 à 16:58, Gerben Wierda a écrit :
>>
>>> Freetype has been updated to version 2.3.5. This install is required
>>> for the non-X11 versions of my ImageMagick, FontForge and  
>>> Ghostscript
>>> installs as they link dynamically to it. The X11-versions use the
>>> Apple-supplied freetype.
>>>
>>> LibPNG has been updated to 1.2.29 (interesting for developers only
>>> who
>>> want an easy ppc+x86 install).
>>> Fontconfig has been updated to 1.2.5 (interesting for developers  
>>> only
>>> who want an easy ppc+x86 install)
>>>
>>> ImageMagick has been updated to 6.4.1 and linked (statically)  
>>> against
>>> libpng 1.2.29 and fontconfig-1.2.5.
>>> Ghostscript has been updated to 8.62 and linked (statically) against
>>> libpng 1.2.29 and fontconfig-1.2.5.
>>> FontForge has been updated to version 20080429 and linked
>>> (statically)
>>> against libpng 1.2.29 and fontconfig-1.2.5.
>>>
>>> One reason for these updates are to get in sync with the libpng
>>> security update.
>>
>> Two short remarks :
>>
>> - The latest Ghostscript i-Package (from 26 May) is available in the
>> EXPERIMENTAL i-Directory but not in the standard i-Directories (NTG,
>> TUG, etc.) which only have a version from 2007.
>
> Oops. I have pre-announced gs it seems. It is not done yet ;-)
>
>> - The Fontconfig and libpng i-Packages include a Configure stage
>> during which no user intervention is possible. Inspecting the
>> associated script, I see that for fontconfig it erases some dynamic
>> libraries libfontconfig*.la and libfontconfig*.dylib inside (I
>> think) /usr/local/lib, depending on the value of a parameter
>> II2DYLIBS, and similarly for fontconfig.
>
> This is correct.
>
>> On my setup nothing was done (automatically) at this stage for
>> fontconfig, while for libpng I got
>>
>> Removing dynamic libraries at i-Installer request (II2DYLIBS != Keep)
>>
>> I assume this is all intended behaviour and nothing to worry about.
>> I don't know whether this is new or had been around before already,
>> I may not have paid attention in the past.
>
> You can set the environment variable in i-Installer's preferences. If
> you do, some i-Packages react to it. It is mainly intended to keep my
> pesonal system free from the dynamic libraries so that when I build
> (say) ImageMagick it will not become dependent on (say) an available
> installation of fontconfig on the target system. Keeps installation of
> stuff like ImageMagick simple for most users and keeps active
> dependencies to a minimum.

See the README for libpng why the default for libpng is to remove  
them ;-)

G

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