[PATCH libXfont] Eliminate calls back to X server or font server functions by name (v2)

[Alan Coopersmith]

On 09/10/15 10:44 AM, Keith Packard wrote:
> Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Had a long hard look at the Archlinux repos and did not see (m)any
>> libxfont users outside of xserver. Would you/others know if they're
>> still a thing or they share the same faith as the print server :-)
>
> There really shouldn't be any other than the X font utilities (bdftopcf,
> mkfontdir, etc).

mkfontdir is now a wrapper around mkfontscale which doesn't use libXfont,
just libfontenc & libfreetype.

bdftopcf could probably be similarly rewritten to use FreeType directly.

As far as I know, and as far as grep for "xfont" in configure.ac can find,
only xfs & the X servers really still need libXfont.   (We used to call
into libXfont from drivers, but xserver commit a00066d2916b6910429 moved
to providing equivalent API from the X server instead.)

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