Hi,

First my apologies for not being subscribed to this group. I _do_ check
the archives on a regular basis though...

I have a little question that has been haunting me for the past few
days:

Summary:
KDE3.0.4 (recompiled) lacks antialiasing support (in the GUI) when
compiled against a recent CVS (19 nov 2002) of XFree86.

What I found out so far:

My X env supports RENDER &
AA works with my current X (CVS) compilation (xterm -fa "andale" shows
AA'd xterm).
Even kfontinstall shows AA'd preview of the fonts!!
(I switched on AA support in KDE/Kcontrol)

I suspect I need working xft headers in order to have anti-aliased fonts
in KDE?
I assume the debian QT3 packages are compiled with -xft?

./configure decides to give up on xft because Xft.h refers to a file
that can't be found. (But continues).

Checking Xft.h reveals that it refers to freetype.h, which is available,
not in the freetype dir but freetype2/freetype.

Pointing to freetype2/freetype/freetype.h in Xft.h doesn't work,
./configure complains about not finding other files (turns off xft and
continues).
Moving freetype one level above (next to freetype2) results in a happy
Xft.h in ./configure and included xft support. Compiling however fails
on inconsistencies in multiple declarations of a function and the lack
of others (originating from the found and accepted Xft.h).

I remember reading that freetype is being turned upsidedown in this
(4.3.0) release of XFree86 and things might not compile as you expect
them. So I noticed.

Question: should I stop and get some sleep since it will not work (soon)
or is there a quick 'workaround' (like the one with the freetype dir I
tried before)?
Will Xft.h headers eventually work in 4.3.0, or is this a transition to
a whole new approach of Xft? I see a Xft and Xft1 dirs in the CVS
structure at the moment namely.


Anyway, if someone could enlighten me a bit here, I'd be pleased...



Regards,
Martin van Es

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