[Xorg] The continuing misadventures of freetype-cthulhu

[Adam Jackson]

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On Monday 02 August 2004 09:11, Egbert Eich wrote:
> Adam Jackson writes:
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>  > This freetype build nonsense is no longer funny.  Let's see if I've got
>  > this all correct:
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>  > 1 - Xorg in CVS requires >=2.1.8 to build, either externally or from our
>  > own copy.
>  > 2 - We cannot force users to upgrade to >=2.1.8 because it has known
>  > rendering issues and breaks the build of many other packages (quite the
>  > stunning revelation there).
>
> I have asked around and noone I've asked could come up with rendering
> problems with 2.1.8. The build breaks for those packages that have used
> freetype internal defines (appearantly from a non public header). This
> defines have been renamed to bear the prefix FT.

http://freedesktop.org/~ajax/ft2.1.8-badness.png

Notice how the headlines are inconsistent.  The fragments at the top of the 
third headline were caused by scrolling; presumably the glyph metrics 
magically changed between the first and second render passes, so firefox 
didn't repaint a big enough area.

What the screenshot doesn't show is the extremely poor load time and the N 
cores I generated trying to take the screenshot.  Moving the freetype libs 
in /usr/X11R6/lib out of my ld.so search path makes the problem go away.

- - ajax
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