[PATCH] XWin: Fix for static libXfont use

Julien Cristau jcristau at debian.org
Mon Jun 28 09:06:50 PDT 2010


On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 16:53:05 +0100, Jon TURNEY wrote:

> What do people think about the attached (untested) patch as an approach?
> 
> Since register_fpe_functions() is now called by the server for every
> generation, we can arrange for that to do the needed
> re-initialization for a new server generation, and avoid libXfont
> needing to track server generations itself.
> 
> This removes serverGeneration from libXfont, so any client which
> depends on the existence of that weak definition won't build any
> more, but that seems to me to be a strange thing to do...
> 
Doesn't that break pre-1.9 servers, which won't call
register_fpe_functions?

Cheers,
Julien


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