On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 09:34:06PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 12:26:12AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 02:04:34AM +0200, Michael Banck wrote:
> > > -# define FontLibSharedFreeType NO
> > >
> > > This one causes a build failure even with the current trunk, as
> > > xc/lib/font/libXFont apparently does not get built on Linux and
> > > xc/lib/font/Freetype/fcfuncs.c needs to be updated for current
> > > libfreetype6. I added the #define to gnu.cf as well, is that reasonable?
> >
> > Uh, you lost me on this one. Can we break this issue out into a separate
> > mail. I get confused quickly when it comes to the Byzantine mess that is
> > font support in X.
>
> Ok, so this is really hairy to figure out. I tried a lot of stuff on and
> off, so I'm not sure whether the following is completely accurate and I
> found it out more by empirical than methodical research:
>
> 099b_Xft_FreeType_2.1.7_build_fix.diff does not touch
> xc/lib/font/Freetype/ftfuncs.c although that file would need the same
> kind of fixes I believe.
>
> The error occurs when building the static xserver:
[...]
> However, grepping through a xfree86 build log on GNU/Linux, I can't
> really tell what makes the difference here, ftfuncs.c seems to get
> compiled both by the shared and static XServer on GNU/Hurd and
> GNU/Linux. So I'm not sure what exactly was the cause, but at some point
> I was quite certain that defining the above variable helped :-/
Are you sure the following comment in linux.cf does not explain this issue?
202 /*
203 * We want to be sure that the normal XFree86 X server and the debugging X
204 * server use the same FreeType2 library. We'd *like* it if we could
205 * achieve this by both packages dynamically linking against the system's
206 * FreeType2 library; however, the normal X server package
207 * (xserver-xfree86) *cannot* be built dynamically linked against the
208 * FreeType2 library when the module loader is enabled because of
209 * code/design issues. Therefore, we encapsulate XFree86's internal "fork"
210 * of the FreeType2 library into *both* xserver-xfree86 and
211 * xserver-xfree86-dbg. When it becomes possible to build the
212 * module-loading server against an external FreeType2 shared library, we
213 * can drop this define:
214 */
215 # define FontLibSharedFreeType NO
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