[tex-live] Comment on libfontconfig

Martin Schröder martin at oneiros.de
Wed Oct 4 16:42:35 CEST 2006


2006/10/4, Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe at math.utah.edu>:
> Before rushing off to adopt and use libfontconfig, please remember
> that it is not universally available on Unix systems.
>
> I just surveyed a couple of dozen different Unix platforms, and found
> that it is available in /usr/lib on these
>
> and absent from these
>
>         OpenBSD 3.5             VAX
>         OpenBSD 3.9             IA-32

It's in xbase, which installs it in /usr/X11R6/lib/

It comes as an so.3.0, but is 2.2.2. Current (4.0) has 2.3.2

Best
   Martin

Btw: Your VAX needs an update.


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