Hi Simon, On Friday, 19 January 2018 8:07 AM, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Thu, 18 Jan 2018 at 11:06:09 +0000, Hugh McMaster wrote: >> The next version of libfreetype6-dev will *not* ship the 'freetype-config' >> script.
> Is there a version in experimental or something with this script omitted? Not yet, but there will be. > In that version, will AC_CHECK_FT2 in /usr/share/aclocal/freetype2 be > modified to run pkg-config instead? I don't see a need for this. In fact, freetype2.m4 probably won't be shipped either. > The attached seems to work in a chroot with a symlink > /usr/local/bin/freetype-config -> /bin/false, so hopefully it'll also > work with the future freetype package. (Built but otherwise untested.) Your patch looks fine to me. Thank you for looking into this so promptly.