On 31 Jul 2010, at 3:33, Kris Maglione wrote:
On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 02:12:39AM +0100, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote:
On 28 Jul 2010, at 2:24, Kris Maglione wrote:
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 11:55:14AM +0200, Uriel wrote:
I have to admit that I don't make a strong distinction between XML
and Java, but fontconfig really isn't X. It's just an external
library like anything else.
Can you build or run the X server without fontconfig? I haven't
tried in years, but if I remember right the one time I tried, it
wouldn't work.
Yes, you can. fontconfig is purely a client-side library. On the
other hand, Xft requires it, and therefore so does everything built
on GTK, Qt, FLTK, or Java. More sinister, ghostscript also requires
it, and so does xetex (most distressingly). It will be a bad day
when I meet Kieth Packard.
Must have been the libraries that wouldn't build, but I'm sure it was
core X.org. I don't think it was Xft, but if it was then some
essential lib had deps on Xft I didn't expect.
