Re: fontconfig

[thuglife_(_at_)_bsd_(_dot_)_hu (Robert Nagy)]

On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 01:24:43PM -0801, Jacob Meuser wrote:
> First, I realize that we are close to release, so I'm not considering
> any changes soon.  This may not even be the best place to ask this
> question, but here goes ...
> 
> I made a port for gimp-2.0pre3, because I want to use it.  Anyway, it
> needs fontconfig 2.2.0.  Our X has fontconfig 2.1.0.
> 
> I made a port for fontconfig 2.2.0, but I don't think it's really a
> good idea to have 2 versions of a package installed.  Not to mention,
> they both want their configs in /etc/fonts.
> 
> So, I think I'm going to work fontconfig 2.2.0 into my X sources.
> 
> My questiona are:
> 
> 	Has anyone else tried merging fc 2.2.0 into their X tree yet?
> 	Does anyone know if fc 2.2.0 will break X programs and/or major
> 		ports like gtk+?
> 	If I'm successful with the merge, and there's no or easily fixed
> 		X/ports breakage, how likely would it be that fc in our
> 		X tree would be updated (the fc 2.2.0 files do not have
> 		the new XFree86 license)?
> 
> Again, I know there are better things to do now, so please don't spend
> your precious time muling over my silliness.
> 
> -- 
> <jakemsr_(_at_)_jakemsr_(_dot_)_com>
gimp2 just works fine with fontconfig 2.1.0. Just edit the configure
script and decrease the needed version of fontconfig.
-- 
Robert Nagy <thuglife_(_at_)_bsd_(_dot_)_hu>
http://thuglife.frontember.hu