built-ins in libXfont and KDRIVESERVER

Alexander E. Patrakov patrakov at ums.usu.ru
Sun Dec 25 19:08:26 PST 2005


Daniel Stone wrote:

>On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 05:15:36PM +0500, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
>  
>
>>in libXfont-X11R7.0-1.0.0/src/builtins/*, there are some bitmap fonts
>>that would be available to the X server if it called
>>BuiltinRegisterFpeFunctions(). But, xorg-server-X11R7.0-1.0.1 does so
>>only if KDRIVESERVER is defined, i.e. never (see dix/dixfonts.c).
>>
>>So, either libXfont-X11R7.0-1.0.0/src/builtins/* is just waste and
>>shouldn't be there, or there should be no #ifdef KDRIVESERVER around
>>BuiltinRegisterFpeFunctions() in xorg-server-X11R7.0-1.0.1/dix/dixfonts.c.
>>
>>BTW the other use of KDRIVESERVER a few lines above that is also 
>>questionable: this macro is never defined.
>>    
>>
>
>... libXfont is not only for xserver/xorg.  Have you ever considered
>that it could maybe used that way for, well, KDrive?
>  
>
Yes, of course. libXfont is certainly useful for KDrive. But is the 
KDRIVESERVER macro useful in xorg-server-X11R7.0-1.0.1 (which is not 
KDrive)?

-- 
Alexander E. Patrakov



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