RE: [ft] Glitchy stroker output

[Stephan T. Lavavej]

> It is common today that you have to run the `autogen.sh' script if you
> want to compile directly from a revision control system.  Reason is
> that the RCS should contain only files which are not generated.

Aha - I've rarely built things from CVS.

> Regarding your items 1, 2, and 3 I have to check later.

Cool.

> > 4. Between 2.3.5 and 2.3.7, something in freetype's build system
> > became slightly broken. [...]
> 
> The build system is fine, however, we forgot to mention in the docs
> that you need GNU Make 3.80 or newer (the $(value ...) function is
> needed).  Meanwhile, the build system checks that.

2.3.7 didn't ask for make 3.80+, but freetype CVS did. It turned out that in
the meantime, MSYS has upgraded from 3.79.1 to 3.81, so I shouldn't have
this problem anymore. Thanks for letting me know - I wouldn't have made the
connection and would have kept my workaround forever.

Stephan