On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 04:20:02AM -0600, Jeremy Buhler wrote: >I've just installed the 4.2.99.902pre CVS tree (as of Saturday night). >Installation generally went smoothly on my x86 Linux 2.4.20 box with a >Radeon 7500 QW and DVI flat panel. I built the tree with gcc 3.2.2 >using '-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer' and haven't noticed >any instability, though I admit that I don't exercise the hardware 3D >acceleration at all and hence don't care about the known compilation >problem there with gcc 3.2. > >I wanted to point out a few items that I hope make it into the release >notes or other conspicuous build documentation:
The BUILD.sgml doc should be brought up to date, and extended to include information like this (and more). > 1. The current RELNOTES mention that, on systems with an > existing Freetype 2 library, one can use that library by > configuring with > > #define BuildFreetype2Library NO > #define Freetype2Dir <appropriate directory> > > (This section of RELNOTES seems to have been updated for .901). No, it hasn't been updated since 4.2, and as you've seen it is out of date. >PS - when building and installing fontconfig as part of a 'make World >/ make install', is it really necessary to replace the user's existing >/etc/fonts/fonts.conf? I'm happy that my old configuration (with my >preferred antialiasing settings) was backed up by the install process, >but I'd as soon the new config file were not installed at all if an >existing config is present. I don't know why it's done that way. Most other config files are installed with the "InstallNonExecFileNoClobber" rule, which doesn't overwrite existing files. David -- David Dawes Release Engineer/Architect The XFree86 Project www.XFree86.org/~dawes _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
