Bug 17220

Summary:	libgd and freetype support
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Neil Watson <gentoo>
Component:	[OLD] Library	Assignee:	SpanKY <vapier>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	foser
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Description Neil Watson 2003-03-10 09:07:43 UTC

A perl GD application is returning an error to me stating that libgd is not compiled with freetype 
support. 
 
Currently libgd 1.8.3-r6 and freetype 2.1.2-r2 are installed.  When I look at the ebuild for libgd 
it seems to me that libgd is configured to look for freetype 1.3*. 
 
It seems there are a lot of issues with these libraries.  Php has similar problems.  What can be 
done to fix this?  How can I help? 

Reproducible: Didn't try
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Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2003-04-29 06:29:52 UTC

will post update soon

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2003-06-26 12:01:56 UTC

ok, the old version of libgd defaulted to freetype-1.x ... i changed the ebuild
so you now have the choice of freetype-1.x or freetype-2.x ...

Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2003-06-26 12:04:04 UTC

sooooo if you want freetype-2.x support (the good stuff, YEAH it is), just put
global USE flag 'truetype' in your USE var ...

buuuuuuuut if you *really* want freetype-1.x support (for some reason), just put
the local USE flag 'ttf' in your USE var ...

http://cvs.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/gentoo-x86/media-libs/libgd/libgd-1.8.4-r1.ebuild.diff?r1=1.1&r2=1.2