Re: [Fonts]New version of FreeType 2 backend

[James H. Cloos Jr.]

Juliusz> Curious...  I don't think there are any binary
Juliusz> incompatibilities visible to drivers between 4.2.0 and
Juliusz> current HEAD.  Please do try a homogeneous recompile and tell
Juliusz> me aboput your findings.

Just managed to get the rpms compiled with the new module and patched
ft2 (only took 85 min and generated a 10MB log after a half dozen
unsuccessful attempts).

I'll try it later tonight, once I track down my archived copies of
what I now have installed to ensure I can back out. :)

A HEAD test in /usr/local will follow tomorrow or the next day.

-JimC

P.S.  Anyone else here giving it a test?

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Re: [Fonts]New version of FreeType 2 backend

[Juliusz Chroboczek]

JC> Unfortunately, this is a no-go.  Although xlsfonts(1x) works
JC> perfectly, any attempt to actually render a scalable font via the new
JC> backend dies with a segfault.

Curious...  I don't think there are any binary incompatibilities
visible to drivers between 4.2.0 and current HEAD.  Please do try a
homogeneous recompile and tell me aboput your findings.

JC> And also against HEAD if I
JC> can figure out a way to do so w/o killing the current install.

I don't have my sources handy, so I'm citing from memory.  Please
double-check the following incantations:

  #define ProjectRoot "/usr/local/X11R6"
  #define NothingOutsideProjectRoot YES

Note that if you do this and also define BuildServersOnly, you'll need
to softlink your fonts and security directories from /usr/X11R6 to
/usr/local/X11R6.

(Actually I don't bother about security and just live with the
warnings when testing the /usr/local installation.)

Juliusz


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