On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 08:46:28PM +0900, ISHIKAWA Mutsumi wrote: > I know you did a lot of the patch merging. But I don't know > detail of merging which peace of the patches ware merged into > upstream and which one is not. Thanks a lot for your work, ISHIKAWA-san. I've finished the patch merging and gotten everything synced up and applying cleanly (no fuzz, no offsets). Thanks to your efforts, xfree86 4.2.0-0pre1v1 only required several more hours of labor to prepare (as opposed to days). > OK, so I'll check what packages will require libXIE or libPEX5. I don't think any still do. If they do, that's their problem, and I'll wait to hear from them. > >> > libfontenc.a > >> > >> Is this the long-awaited "recode-on-the-fly" font library? > > No, it is common font encoding conversion layer called > `fontenc layer' library. It is separated from libXfont. Hmm. Could it be used to support on-the-fly font transcoding? Is it just that the work hasn't been done yet? > I do and don't think so. I think i18n modules are not buggy but > Xlib's module dynamic loading is buggy. I18n related problems have > occurred as a result. > > Most important bug is Dynamic loading module will unload if it is > still used. So, some X client (e.g xcin) will crash. xcin is XIM > input server, so if some clients connected it, these clients will > also crash.... > > These discuss on both Xpert and i18n lists of XFree86 in > Jan 2002 (subject is "4.2 is not compatiable with 4.1 ?"). > Owen Taylor posted a patch to resolve this problem in the thread. > > http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/i18n/2002-January/002927.html > > This patch was already merged into upstream CVS head (and -0b2's > 000_stolen_from_HEAD.diff contains this). > > - 157. Add some reference counting for Xlib's i18n modules, > preventing a module getting unloaded while it's still in use > (#5160, Owen Taylor). > > And another problem, zh_CN support is broken, because > zh_CN/XI18N_OBJS file is missing (installed as zh/XI18N_OBJS, > it is wrong place).XI18N_OBJS is control file about which dynamic > module should load for the locale. It is also fixed in CVS. > > - 159. Add missing zh_CN XI18N_OBJS file (#5164, Yong Li). > > These are very important fix related i18n, I think. Thanks very much for this information. Maybe I should subscribe to the XFree86 i18n list! Thanks again for your hard work. -- G. Branden Robinson | One man's "magic" is another man's Debian GNU/Linux | engineering. "Supernatural" is a branden@debian.org | null word. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Robert Heinlein
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