From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Jun 6 10: 4:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from ringworld.nanolink.com (ringworld.nanolink.com [195.24.48.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C48D137B403 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 10:04:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roam@ringworld.nanolink.com) Received: (qmail 1743 invoked by uid 1000); 6 Jun 2001 17:03:14 -0000 Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 20:03:14 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev To: Will Andrews Cc: Jean-Marc Zucconi , Maxim Sobolev , ports@FreeBSD.org, portmgr@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: XFree86-4 & freetype Message-ID: <20010606200313.F1104@ringworld.oblivion.bg> Mail-Followup-To: Will Andrews , Jean-Marc Zucconi , Maxim Sobolev , ports@FreeBSD.org, portmgr@FreeBSD.org References: <20010605082745.A71191@hub.freebsd.org> <200106051958.f55Jw9c28593@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010606113816.C18735@ringworld.oblivion.bg> <200106061406.f56E6BG25805@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010606114043.F69586@bohr.physics.purdue.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010606114043.F69586@bohr.physics.purdue.edu>; from will@physics.purdue.edu on Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 11:40:43AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 11:40:43AM -0500, Will Andrews wrote: > On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 07:06:11AM -0700, Jean-Marc Zucconi (jmz@FreeBSD.org) wrote: > > XFree86 does not build any TrueType font. The fonts/scaled/TTF/ > > directory is empty. > > I'm not sure there is a point here. People like and use truetype > fonts, including myself. I'm not sure there's a point there either. As mentioned several times, the problem is not with installing a specific set of fonts, but with installing SUPPORT for these fonts - in this case, the FreeType library. Regardless of whether XFree86 provides ttf fonts or not, it provides and installs a ttf font manipulation library, which several people besides Maxim have considered to be, for various reasons, not quite friendly to other FreeBSD ports. To put it in simple words, building ttf support *for the X server* (what the BuildXTrueType define controls) should be separated from building the actual ttf rendering functions (what the BuildFreeType define controls). G'luck, Peter -- This sentence claims to be an Epimenides paradox, but it is lying. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message