On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 04:38:10PM +0200, Tuomo Valkonen wrote:
> That helped. It indeed is Xft support that is breaking things. 
> I get max font width 29 and height 27 for the 7x13 font (the values
> should be 7 and 13). I'm not knowledgeable of Xft so, Pelle, would
> you look into this? (IIRC you wrote or at least converted the patch.)

I did not write or convert it, I was the one who added runtime
configurability.

> Autoconf is only trouble. Badly written makefiles are easier to fix
> than autoconf scripts (that are broken even more often).

Are autoconf scripts broken? I haven't experienced that. What do you
suggest doing when a package depends on several other libraries or
need to check some things like library versions and availability of
certain functions? Write your own configure script? Use Imake?

/Pelle

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