built-ins in libXfont and KDRIVESERVER

Daniel Stone daniel at freedesktop.org
Sun Dec 25 13:25:33 PST 2005


On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 05:15:36PM +0500, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> in libXfont-X11R7.0-1.0.0/src/builtins/*, there are some bitmap fonts
> that would be available to the X server if it called
> BuiltinRegisterFpeFunctions(). But, xorg-server-X11R7.0-1.0.1 does so
> only if KDRIVESERVER is defined, i.e. never (see dix/dixfonts.c).
> 
> So, either libXfont-X11R7.0-1.0.0/src/builtins/* is just waste and
> shouldn't be there, or there should be no #ifdef KDRIVESERVER around
> BuiltinRegisterFpeFunctions() in xorg-server-X11R7.0-1.0.1/dix/dixfonts.c.
> 
> BTW the other use of KDRIVESERVER a few lines above that is also 
> questionable: this macro is never defined.

... libXfont is not only for xserver/xorg.  Have you ever considered
that it could maybe used that way for, well, KDrive?



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