Should I enable the anti-aliased font capability in the next Cygwin 1.5.x/Xfree86 4.3.x build of lesstif (0.43.91-1)?
The feature is now enabled by default in the vanilla lesstif sources when the proper libraries are found by configure. But, AFAIK, the feature is still considered experimental. My other concern is the additional link time dependencies this will add. (Obviously, we would need to add additional setup.hint dependencies too.) libtool enabled applications should just get it right via the libXm.la file, but non libtool aware applications might break at compile time if their configure scripts or the like are not smart enough. Since Xm is a static library, previously compiled apps would be unaffected. For reference: Current Cygwin 1.3.22/Xfree 4.2.x libXm.la (0.93.41): # Libraries that this one depends upon. dependency_libs=' -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lSM -lICE -lXt -lXp -lXext -lX11' Possible new Cygwin 1.5.x/Xfree 4.3.x libXm.la (0.93.91): # Libraries that this one depends upon. dependency_libs=' -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lSM -lICE -lXt -lXp -lXext -lX11 -lfreetype -lXft -lXrender -lfontconfig' Also, I'm not quite sure how: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-09/msg00317.html would effect this. As a side note, is there any reason to enable Motif 1.2 and 2.0 compatible libraries too? Right now, we only build the Motif 2.1 version. Thanks for the input. Brian volunteer lesstif maintainer for Cygwin -- Brian Ford Senior Realtime Software Engineer VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems FlightSafety International Phone: 314-551-8460 Fax: 314-551-8444