On Apr 8, 2007, at 08:50, Adam Nohejl wrote:

The current freetype package contains version 2.3.3, while some other packages still need the pre-2.2.0 FreeType with exposed internals and therefore fail to build with the current version of FreeType. For instance libsdl_ttf (see http://freetype.org/ freetype2/freetype-2.2.0.html for more info).

As I'm new to MacPorts I don't know what would be the proper solution: Is there a way to make specific packages dependent on specific versions of other packages? (Probably not.) Would be a separate package for that version needed? (Not very nice.)

However, as far as I can tell the current state makes some packages simply unusable.

A port is always at its most recent version. There's no way currently for Subversion to access any older versions of the portfile. So, if one port depends on another, then it's always depending on the most recent version of that other port. I haven't tried to look into this specific situation, but if libsdl_ttf does not work with freetype 2.3.3 and cannot be made to work with freetype 2.3.3, when we do indeed need an additional port for an older version of freetype. Note that there was a problem with freetype 2.2.1, which is why MacPorts never upgraded to that version. I do not remember what the problem was, only that someone tried to upgrade freetype to 2.2.1, it caused massive problems for everyone, and the change had to be reverted less than 24 hours later. So if we made a separate older freetype port, it might have to be the old 2.1.10 version. However I would of course prefer if libsdl_ttf could be made to work with freetype 2.3.3.

8.4.2007 v 23:49, Jann Röder:

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However I would of course prefer if libsdl_ttf could be made to work with freetype 2.3.3.

Actually there is a patch for libsdl_ttf on the website Adam provided http://freetype.org/freetype2/freetype-2.2.0.html .

I added this patch to the libsdl_ttf Portfile. Should work now.

I have overlooked it. The patched version works fine. Thanks! -- Adam