[Xorg] XORG-CURRENT not building?

[Egbert Eich]

Roland Mainz writes:
 > Stuart Kreitman wrote: 
 > > I have a checkout from yesterday, the XORG-CURRENT (co done 4-22-2004,
 > > 3:52 PST)
 > > appears to not build on my SuSe 8 based system, breaks in
 > > programs/mkfontscale/mkfontscale.c (ftbdf,h changed??)
 > > 
 > > Will try my luck on the HEAD branch.
 > 
 > Uhm... I have the same problem on SuSE 8.2 since the FreeType2 library
 > shipped with SuSE 8.2 is too old.

Right. You need at least freetype 2.1.7 to build the tree succeessfully.
If you don't have that you will have to enable building of the included
freetype module. This will unfortunately render the freetype module
of the Xserver that gets build unsuable - partly because of bugs in
freetype 2.1.7. I have caught this error yesterday and the workaround is 
rather simple. Unfortunately this wasn't detected prior to the 6.7 release 
:-((
I will upgrade freetype in the tree to the new 2.1.8 which has these
bugs removed and has a new API that will allow Chisato to accelerate
rendering of East Asian fonts without having to rely on an internal
freetype function.
This will unfortunately have to wait until I return from Boston.

Egbert.