[xorg-bugzilla-noise] [Bug 556] RFE: Update FreeType2 version in xc/extras/Freetype2 to V2.1.8...

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------- Additional Comments From eich at pdx.freedesktop.org  2004-05-06 01:48 -------
Roland Mainz wrote:

> Uhm... this is usually the way how moz.org does the job - the patch is stored in
> bugzilla for review/approval and checked-in as-is. Nothing in the main branches
> goes "in" without being stored in bugzilla first.

Right. But you were pulling in the freetype2 2.1.8 bits. These things should go
in unchanged. If at all we need to work around problems from outside. Changing
the freetype code in our tree means we have to tack our changes in future
versions. XFree86 seems to do this sometimes - but it is crazy. freetype should
not even have to be in the tree and we are moving to a situation where it
doesn't have to be. 
I've checked for differences to freetype2 2.1.8: I found a change in the
ftconfig.h header which was related to CHAR_BITS. I've reverted this and added a
patch to another place to take care of the problem. 

> Uhm... are there any bugzilla bugs which describe the "kludges" ?

No, unfortunately not. Today I worked a little bit more on the freetype issue
and found some other symbol problems. I will make a separate entry to bugzilla
for this.
I may also delete the static freetype module build so that the freetype module 
that gets used will be an .so which can link against a system supplied freetype
library.



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