[PATCH libXfont] Eliminate calls back to X server or font server functions by name (v2)

Julien Cristau jcristau at debian.org
Wed Sep 9 13:00:40 PDT 2015


On Wed, Sep  9, 2015 at 18:30:55 +0100, Emil Velikov wrote:

> In parallel to Matt's question - if we do opt for a separate library
> (libXfont2), the headers will clash with libXfont's.
> 
> From a very quick look, only fontstruct.h seems to be used. If truly
> so, one can rework it (rename or fold into libxfont2.h, rename the
> symbols ?) and drop the rest from libXfontinclude_HEADERS.
> 
> Additionally it'll be great to sanitise the list of exported symbols,
> as things might go nasty as we end up with both libXfont.so
> libXfont2.so opened at the same time.
> 
Considering that the only users of libXfont are the X server, the font
server and bdftopcf, I don't think loading it twice is something we need
to be concerned about too much. :)

Cheers,
Julien


More information about the xorg-devel mailing list