On Sat, 11 Nov 2000, Henry House wrote: > Are the X fonts affected by these package upgrades? I'm finding all sorts of > font problems right now on my Alpha which don't seem to be affecting IA32 > systems. Example:
Good question. I haven't even begun tackling those kinds of problems yet. I did discover some interesting things the other day, while trying to debug libgd-perl on Alpha, though, related to some 64-bit problems in the freetype libs. Once I finish some gcc testing that I'm doing, I'll be tackling a larger-scale recompilation on that front. > Could these problems be related to other XF864 problems on Alpha? They > certainly seem to be Alpha-specific. I'll look into this shortly. It's possible that some of the other packages haven't been updated to reflect the new X layout/etc. I'll look into this once I get to the point where I can really test these things... C
