[Xorg] CVS HEAD -- ftfuncs.c:931: error: structure has no membernamed `find_sbit_image'

[Eric Anholt]

On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 05:32, Matthieu Herrb wrote:
> Roland Mainz wrote:
> > Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > 
> >>On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 20:49 -0700, Eric Anholt wrote:
> >>
> >>>"Things slow down (a lot) for some fonts when used as core fonts" is
> >>>*far* better than "The build fails for almost all of our users."
> >>>Simply saying, "Use 2.1.8 if you want fast CJKV core fonts" seems
> >>>pretty simple to me.
> >>
> >>Seconded, FWIW.
> > 
> > 
> > So you think it's acceptable to slap the users in asia into the face or
> > what ? Those users get a font loading performance which is *NOT*
> > acceptable if that code gets removed again.
> > 
> 
> I'd suggest to let imake detect the version of the installed Freetype, 
> and then disable the offending  code if the installed version is too old.
> 
> BTW, another problem seem to be that mozilla (and thunderbird) builds 
> fails against Freetype 2.1.9. I've seen that both using OpenBSD's ports 
> and gentoo's portage of mozilla 1.7.1 and thunderbird 0.7. Is there a 
> known workaround for that?

The best part is that imake doesn't even need to do anything -- freetype
provides macros for the version, so you could check it in the code
itself.  The diff would be like 10 lines I'm guessing.

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