Depending on external libraries

[Egbert Eich]

Keith Packard writes:
 > 
 > Around 21 o'clock on Mar 11, Egbert Eich wrote:
 > 
 > > A way around this problem would be to install a new version of libfreetype
 > > alongside the other driver modules and make dlopen look there before 
 > > looking at the standard locations for shared libs.
 > 
 > In the near term, I suggest we not worry too much about it.  The server 
 > will not have font modules for long as FreeType is now the only font file
 > loader we need (XTT has been integrated into FreeType); the need to 
 > select between FreeType and XTT has been eliminated.
 > 
 > But, if we do need this kind of functionality, we could hack the code to 
 > set LD_LIBRARY_PATH or prepend directory names to libraries.
 > 

Yes, something along this path. I don't think it would be rocket science
to tell it where to find the module.

Egbert.