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

On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 10:41:54PM +0100, Bas van Gils wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 08:40:15AM -0800, Seth Alan Woolley wrote:
> > XFT isn't compiling for me
> 
> Perhaps it's me but: I don't seem to have an XFT spell (I'm running the
> test-grimoire). Am I missing the point or what?

We're talking about the --enable-xft option to mozilla, and xft is 
essentially an extension to X to provide nice anti-aliased fonts.  I 
think it was rolled into X a while ago, so the spell(s) was(were) 
deprecated and removed.

The problem is that the xft support in mozilla uses old freetype2 api 
calls when our new freetype2 has had a different api for something like 
a year.  Our patches to fix the api calls cover 80-90% of the change 
right now, but each release the mozilla/firefox developers change 
something around whenever we get that up to 100%.

At least, that's the best way I can think to explain it.

Seth

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