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  • From: Justin Rocha <jrocha AT sourcemage.org>
  • To: sm-grimoire AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Grimoire] x11-fonts
  • Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 03:09:48 -0700

On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 01:21, Treeve Jelbert wrote:
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> It may be a stupid suggestion, but I was wondering whether all the font
> building should be removed to a separate spell, so that they don't get
> rebuilt everytime one of the xfree* spells gets rebuilt.
>
> At present building the fonts takes a significant portion of the total
> time,
> especially if ccache is working well, and I suspect that the font
> definitions
> don't actually change between releases of xfree*
I would agree it is something to look into. Everytime I recompile
xfree86 I always seem to either gain or lose a font that I needed
somehow. (for example, this last recompile, all my kanji support
vanished!)

> However, I'm not sure how such a new spell would fit into the overall
> dependencies of other spells

I don't think it would be a dependecy of much.
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