Freetype-based text rendering and font discovery

[Shai Ayal]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Michael
Goffioul<michael.goffioul at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm thinking about using fontconfig, which I guess is widely spread
> in UNIX environment. To make it simple in the configure script, I'm
> thinking about using pkg-config to find out fontconfig compilation flags.
>
> Would these added dependencies be acceptable?

According to this page:
http://packages.debian.org/lenny/libfltk1.1
fltk already depends on libfontconfig, so this is already a dependency
of octave on debian. I think if you compile fltk with Xft it will
depend on fontconfig

Shai