[Xorg] CVS HEAD -- ftfuncs.c:931: error: structure has no membernamed `find_sbit_image'

[Eric Anholt]

On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 20:27, Roland Mainz wrote:
> > > > > Or build the freetype2 version in the xc/-tree statically into the
> > > > > applications...
> > > >
> > > > Or go and wrap the commit in tests for 2.1.8 being available, which
> > > > seems to be the clear solution:
> > >
> > > That will _BREAK_ XTT like it happened in the last release. This should
> > > not happen again. Please link libFreeType2 statically if the platform
> > > really does not have Freetype2 >= 2.1.8 and cannot use the copy in the
> > > xc/-tree...
> > 
> > OK, I assumed from that changelog that an optimization was simply
> > removed by accident with all of the changes that had been going on in
> > freetype areas. 
> 
> That wasn't an accident. Initially it was removed because the XTT code
> was using a "private" Freetype2 API - but the side-effects were that
> drastic that the FreeType2 library got an extra "public" API to get the
> functionality back.
> 
> > Is there really no way to do this with older FreeType?
> 
> AFAIK not without causing trouble for CJKV users. Even Xfree86 has
> updated it's FreeType2 copy in CVS to FreeType 2.1.8 to ensure the XTT
> code works properly (using the new "public" API which was extra added
> for that purpose) - and AFAIK that indicates the importance of the
> issue...

"_BREAK_" implied something besides "things slow down (a lot)," so I
thought I had misunderstood.  "Things slow down (a lot) for some fonts
when used as core fonts" is *far* better than "The build fails for
almost all of our users."  Simply saying, "Use 2.1.8 if you want fast
CJKV core fonts" seems pretty simple to me.

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