On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 12:10:05PM -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: > While xfs can be more or less trivially ported to 2.0, bcftopcf cannot > because the font file I/O API is no longer externally visible. This is > intentional, because bdftopcf is literally the only consumer of that > API, and is itself only used in the build process for the classic core > fonts themselves. The plan for bdftopcf is to import a copy of libXfont > 1.5 and link against that statically instead. > > Signed-off-by: Adam Jackson <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Peter Hutterer <[email protected]> Cheers, Peter > --- > README | 17 +++++++++++------ > 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/README b/README > index c95c3cf..de1512f 100644 > --- a/README > +++ b/README > @@ -1,9 +1,14 @@ > -libXfont provides the core of the legacy X11 font system, handling the > -index files (fonts.dir, fonts.alias, fonts.scale), the various font file > -formats, and rasterizing them. It is used by the X servers, the > -X Font Server (xfs), and some font utilities (bdftopcf for instance), > -but should not be used by normal X11 clients. X11 clients access fonts > -via either the new API's in libXft, or the legacy API's in libX11. > +libXfont provides the core of the legacy X11 font system, handling the index > +files (fonts.dir, fonts.alias, fonts.scale), the various font file formats, > +and rasterizing them. It is used by the X servers, and will eventually be > +used by the X Font Server (xfs), but should not be used by normal X11 > clients. > +X11 clients access fonts via either the new APIs in libXft, or the legacy > +APIs in libX11. > + > +This version of libXfont is not compatible with xfs, or with the legacy > +bdftopcf utility; these packages require libXfont 1.5, not libXfont 2.0 > +or later. The two versions can be installed in parallel, and eventually > +the need for 1.5 will go away. We apologize for the inconvenience. > > libXfont supports a number of compression and font formats, and the > configure script takes various options to enable or disable them: > -- > 2.9.3 > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected]: X.Org development > Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel > Info: https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel > _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
