libfreetype.so vanished with xorg-server 1.6 ?!?
Julien Cristau
jcristau at debian.org
Sun Mar 1 08:53:36 PST 2009
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 14:46:19 +0100, Stefan Dirsch wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm wondering what happened to libfreetype.so Xserver module. It's no
> longer been built with xorg-server 1.6. Which module is supposed to
> take over the server side font rendering for truetype and type1 fonts
> now ?!? Yes, there are still X applications, who need it!
>
AIUI this has simply been made non-modular. freetype is still here (in
libXfont), but now it's always loaded instead of being a separate server
plugin.
Cheers,
Julien
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