Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 12:15:25 +0300 (EEST) From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG> To: roam@orbitel.bg (Peter Pentchev) Cc: jmz@FreeBSD.ORG (Jean-Marc Zucconi), sobomax@hub.freebsd.org (Maxim Sobolev), ports@FreeBSD.ORG, portmgr@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86-4 & freetype Message-ID: <200106060915.f569FPA01860@vega.vega.com> In-Reply-To: <20010606113816.C18735@ringworld.oblivion.bg> from "Peter Pentchev" at Jun 06, 2001 11:38:16 AM
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> > On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 12:58:09PM -0700, Jean-Marc Zucconi wrote: > > >>>>> Maxim Sobolev writes: > > > > > Hi, > > > Reading RELNOTES for XFree86-4.1.0 revealed that they are now > > > providing a way to easily use external freetype2 library instead > > > of one buindled with XFree86. Could you please reconsider your > > > last decision to use buindled freetype, which if my memory serves > > > was mainly due to headache associated with extending and maintaining > > > already large XFree86 patchset. > > > > This is not new, and there is an option in script/configure to not > > compile the builtin freetype. Configure asks: > > Do you want support for TrueType fonts? [YES] > > > > From the cvs log: > > revision 1.74 > > date: 2001/03/20 15:55:00; author: jmz; state: Exp; lines: +5 -1 > > Add the possibility to disable support for TrueType fonts. > > Maybe I'm reading Maxim's message wrong, but.. I think he's suggesting > that only the FreeType build is disabled; this does not necessarily > mean disabling TrueType fonts, as the X build might detect a previously > installed FreeType library, and use it to still build the fonts. Actually I was talking about using external dependency to print/freetype2 in XFree86-4 instead of rolling out its own version. Our dependency machanism work reasonably well and I don't see why XFree86-4 shouldn't use it. This won't decrease functionality of XFree86-4. It is already known that XFree86-4 installs incomplete version of freetype2 which creates number of weird problems. -Maxim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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