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[Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>]

On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 05:31:45PM +0100, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 12:59:45AM -0800, Seth Alan Woolley wrote:
> > Draft spell in devel grimoire marked as WIP.  After some tests, we can 
> > move it up to test (or since it worked for me somebody can add a history 
> > entry and integ to test if they want).  Read the WIP file for details.
> > 
> > You do need to -r it since the depends change regarding xft/freetype2, 
> > they are now mutually exclusive for some reason.
> 
> Probably because they are two totally different backends for the same
> thing, font rendering. The one enabled with --enable-freetype2 is a
> _very_ old one, the first to provide antialiased fonts for mozilla. Xft
> is the one you want today.

XFT isn't compiling for me, but freetype2 is.  Fonts are ugly, but at 
least I've got 1.0 compiled before official release!

From the freetype.patch we have, it looks like we need to do some api 
changes for our newer freetype for some of the XFT code in 1.0.

Seth

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