freetype variant x86

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Mon May 28 14:59:13 PDT 2007


On May 27, 2007, at 15:26, N_Ox wrote:

>>> Shouldn't the x86 variant be transformed in a darwin i386 platform?
>>
>> Or removed. All it does is modify the configure script as follows:
>>
>> (...)
>>
>> This was added on 2004-11-16 in r9312 to fix bug #1653:
>>
>> http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/changeset/9312
>>
>> http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/1653
>>
>> It looks like freetype 2.1.7 wouldn't install on a non-Mac pure- 
>> Darwin 7 system until patched. I've had freetype installed on my  
>> Intel Mac for awhile so I obviously didn't run into the issue the  
>> patch was trying to fix. So it either applies only to pure Darwin,  
>> or it only applies to Darwin 7 / Mac OS X 10.3, or it doesn't  
>> apply at all anymore with current freetype. Since I haven't had  
>> any problem reports from Mac users, and we don't support pure  
>> Darwin anymore, I'm inclined to remove this entirely. Thoughts?
>
> Since it's unsupported now, we should remove it. That will only  
> make the tree cleaner the tree.

I removed it.




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