On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 01:21 +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > I've placed the patch at
> > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=603
> >
> > I think it's not really appropriate to copy the patch to the
> > freetype.org list of patches for rogue clients, since there are a
> > couple of other issues in the modular build (unrelated to freetype
> > internals) which X.org needs to sort out before it will all work
> > (see
> > http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-modular/2006-January/000889.html)
> > Besides, existing installations of Xprint will still build since the
> > freetype source was included with the X11 source up till now.
>
> Well, it would be nice if the above is mentioned on that page. Can
> you provide a small patch for rogue-patches.html which tells the user
> what he or she shall do w.r.t. xprint?
>
How does the attached look?
Drew
--- rogue-patches.html.orig 2006-01-29 15:33:06.000000000 +1100
+++ rogue-patches.html 2006-01-29 16:02:56.000000000 +1100
@@ -82,11 +82,28 @@
<p><b>poppler</b><br>
Use version 0.5.1 or newer.
- </p></li></ul>
+ </p></li>
+ <li>
+ <p><b>Xprint</b></p>
+ <p>Monolithic versions of Xprint supplied up to and including X.org
+ version X11R6.9 use FreeType internals but should continue to
+ build safely since FreeType source code is bundled in the
+ tarball (in xc/extras/freetype2).</p>
+ <p>Modular Xprint in X11R7.0 is not currently operational. It
+ is expected to be restored in X11R7.1, including FreeType
+ support. FreeType internals will no longer be used according
+ to the patch provided at <a
+ href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=603";>Xprint
+ bug #603</a>. Other issues supporting FreeType in Xprint are
+ under discussion at the <a
+ href="http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-modular/2006-January/000889.html";>
+ xorg-modular mailing list.</a></p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
-<font size="-3">Last update: 27-Jan-2006</font>
+<font size="-3">Last update: 29-Jan-2006</font>
</body></html>
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