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1 Fontconfig is built with the traditional configure script:
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3 $ ./configure --sysconfdir=/etc --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man
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5 This should generate valid Makefiles, then:
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7 $ make
8 $ make install
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10 If you're going to package fontconfig for release, there are several
11 important steps:
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13 1. Update the version numbers
14 configure.in
15 fontconfig/fontconfig.h
16 2. Fix the README
17 Change version number
18 Set the date
19 3. Commit those changes
20 4. make checkdist
21 5. tag the tree
22 cvs tag fc-2_2_xx
23 6. Split out the ChangeLog into ChangeLog-2.2.xx with
24 the changes since the previous release
25 7. Copy ChangeLog-2.2.xx and fontconfig-2.2.xx.tar.gz to
26 freedesktop.org:~fontconfig/public_html/release
27 8. Update the Fontconfig Devel wiki page
28 http://freedesktop.org/Software/FontconfigDevel
29 9. Post a note to fontconfig@fontconfig.org