RE: XFree 4.2.1 + fontconfig-2

["Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Nicholas,

I wasn't even aware of XFree86 4.2.1 until you mentioned it.

I am not sure if I will build a release of it or not... seems like a lot of
trouble for just a few fixes, with non of them Cygwin-specific.

As for building versioned DLLs --- I have no idea.  I am not knowledgeable
enough about that topic to be able to give you an answer, or even to be able
to discuss it.

In regards to Xft1 and XFt2, Alan Hourihane and I noticed a problem with
both of them being built and one DLL (version 1) wiping out the other DLL
(version 2), so we said to hell with it and stopped building Xft1 and went
full-on with Xft2.  As to whether or not that was a good decision, I can
only say that Alan thought it was okay, so it is okay with me :)

So, in summary, there is not likely to be a release effort applied to
getting 4.2.1 out the door... unless I suddenly come up on a great amount of
time.  Also, Alan shipped me the standard X packages last time, which I fed
through the Cygwin packaging script, so if he does that this time I'll
likely make a 4.2.1 release.

Harold

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Nicholas Wourms
> Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 1:57 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: XFree 4.2.1 + fontconfig-2
>
>
> Harold,
>
> (Feel free to tell me that this will be ready when it is ready...)
>
> I was just wondering if you were fixing up a release for the 4.2.1
> patchset?  If you are working on this, might I suggest the inclusion
> of Keith Packard's fontconfig-2 libraries
> [http://www.fontconfig.org]?  The suite provides enhanced support and
> capabilities for using truetype fonts.  There are one or two issues
> with it, mostly having to do with the fact that the XFree dll's
> aren't versioned [i.e. libXt-1.dll, etc.].  Is there any way to build
> the core dll's with versioning information incorporated into the
> runtime library's name?  The reason for this is that Keith has bumped
> Xft to v2, but it is both source and binary incompatible with Xft v1.
>  However, Keith has provided a compatibility library, Xft1, to deal
> with this, but has kept the base names the same (libXft).  On
> linux/unix, this works fine because the runtime libraries are
> appended with versioning information.  On Cygwin, however, the
> libraries clobber each other.  What do you think?
>
> Cheers,
> Nicholas
>
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