[tex-live] Comment on libfontconfig

[Jonathan Kew]

On 4 Oct 2006, at 4:36 pm, Frank Küster wrote:
>
> Now that's bad:  Linux and BSD have different sonames for the same
> library version?

It's unfortunate, though not necessarily a problem in itself. TL has  
separate binaries for FreeBSD and Linux, at least for i386, so  
there's nothing to prevent them using different sonames. As long as  
the soname on the system that builds the TL binary for FreeBSD  
matches the soname on the target machine, it should be fine.

>   The inofficial Debian GNU/kFreeBSD port uses the same
> source package as Debian Linux, therefore it also has so.1.1.0

If this means (as I understand it) that some FreeBSD users have  
libfontconfig.so.1 and others have libfontconfig.so.3, depending  
which package they installed, then we do have a problem here. If  
someone knows how to build without a hard dependency, and find the  
installed library at runtime, that's fine with me. Otherwise I guess  
it'll be up to whoever builds FreeBSD binaries for TL to decide what  
fontconfig package to support.

JK