[PATCH] XWin: Fix for static libXfont use

[Vignatti Tiago (Nokia-D/Helsinki)]

On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 01:36:31PM +0200, ext Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 14:20:51 +0300, Tiago Vignatti wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 12:48:53PM +0200, ext Colin Harrison wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > All XWin DDX builds use libXfont built static.
> > > The following libXfont patch is needed following recent master git changes
> > > (use of register_fpe_functions from libXfont in the server)...
> > > 
> > > --- ./src/util/save_miscutil.c  2010-06-21 16:47:00.000000000 +0100
> > > +++ ./src/util/miscutil.c       2010-06-28 11:25:19.000000000 +0100
> > > @@ -48,8 +48,10 @@
> > > 
> > >  extern void BuiltinRegisterFpeFunctions(void);
> > > 
> > > +#ifndef WIN32
> > >  /* make sure everything initializes themselves at least once */
> > >  weak long serverGeneration = 1;
> > > +#endif
> > > 
> > 
> > can't we just live without serverGeneration then? My quickly compile & test
> > approach here worked well when doing it.
> > 
> What did you test exactly?  The X server has a non-weak serverGeneration
> so removing the weak one from libXfont doesn't make a difference there,
> but it might for other libXfont users.

oh, that's true. I forgot that the server and libXfont is not 1:1 mapping.

             Tiago
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