[PATCH libX11 1/2] config: require fop minimum version 1.0

Dan Nicholson dbn.lists at gmail.com
Fri Jun 24 05:34:57 PDT 2011


On Jun 23, 2011 4:21 PM, "Gaetan Nadon" <memsize at videotron.ca> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 20:50 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
>>
>> Also, I'm not sure if looking for a version number is a very good way to
>> check for bugs.  People backport bug fixes all the time, and introduce
>> new bugs all the time.
>>
>>
> Right. It was not my intention to test for bugs. The objective is to specify a minimum version that will correctly build the docbooks. I recall the reason for specifying "no" was because fop was crashing (which I verified to be the case).

The reason "no" is the default is because building the docs for libX11
takes forever and people were getting annoyed waiting for the pdfs
that they didn't want anyway.

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libX11/commit/?id=1ec89689fc771f116a6165226b9e076f54254a40

--
Dan


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