Re: XFree86 X server and FreeType

[ISHIKAWA Mutsumi <ishikawa@debian.org>]

>>>>> In <[🔎] 20030611174259.GH20106@deadbeast.net> 
>>>>>	Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> wrote:

>> On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 11:22:00PM +0900, ISHIKAWA Mutsumi wrote:

>> Okay, just to make sure I understand the situation:
>>
>> 1) we want to be sure that the normal X server package
>>    (xserver-xfree86) and the debugging X server package
>>    (xserver-xfree86-dbg) use the same FreeType library.
>> 2) we'd *like* it if we could achieve this by both packages dynamically
>>    linking against the system's FreeType library; however,
>> 3) The normal X server package (xserver-xfree86) *cannot* be built
>>    dynamically linked against the FreeType library because of upstream
>>    code/design issues;
>> 4) Therefore, we encapsulate XFree86's internal "fork" of the FreeType
>>    library into *both* xserver-xfree86 and xserver-xfree86-dbg.
>>
>> Have I got that correct?

 Exactly yes.

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ISHIKAWA Mutsumi
 <ishikawa@linux.or.jp>, <ishikawa@debian.org>, <ishikawa@netvillage.co.jp>