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  • From: jkolb AT brandeis.edu
  • To: Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>
  • Cc: SM-Discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Xfree86 4.3
  • Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:47:14 -0500

No, I believe that xrender and the xft stuff are at higher versions than the
ones in xfree86 4.3. so i don't think we should remove the spells.

Jeremy

Quoting Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>:

> On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 08:44:21PM +0800, "Jimmy Yen(???)" wrote:
> > (Oops, just sent the mail from a unsubscribed address, so I'm sending it
>
> > again...)
> >
> > Please notice that the source files are split into seven tarballs, so my
>
> > guess is that you didn't download all the sources...
> >
> > It does work here
> >
> > Also, I have noticed that the version numbers of libXrender.so and
> > libXft.so shipped with XF86 4.3 seem to be newer than those from Xft2
> > and Xrender spells (both are version 2_1.) Are those spells still
> needed?
>
> >From the fontconfig.org/fontconfig website:
> We're almost ready for release 2.2 of fontconfig. As XFree86 4.3
> contains up-to-date versions of the X related libraries (Xrender, Xft
> and Xft1), release 2.2 is likely to contain just fontconfig.
>
> So i guess a sane solution would be to remove the Xft1, Xft2 and Xrender
> spells, make xfree86 depend on freetype2 and fontconfig and removing
> those 2 from the XFree build.
>
>
> Arwed
> aka alley_cat
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