xterm 225 remote display problem with mixed endianness and Xft fonts

[Matthieu Herrb]

Matthieu Herrb wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've noticed one annoying problem with xterm-225:
> 
> when running with Xft fonts on a big-endian machine (macppc, sparc64 in
> my cases) with remote display (through an ssh X11 tunnel) on a little
> endian machine (32 or 64 bits x86), text is rendered with the background
> color, and is thus invisible.
> 
> It happens both with OpenBSD and Mac OS X hosts, with the default
> configuration (ie ./configure --prefix=/usr/local, without any
> customization).
> 
> Local display on big-endian and little endian machine is ok.
> 
> Remote display with server-side fonts is ok too.
> 
> The previous version I used and didn't expose this behaviour was 216.
> I've not tried any versions in-between, so I don't know when it appeared
> first.
> 
> Any ideas of what's causing that, or available patches?
> 

I found the problem (it's in Xrender not in xterm) and filed a bug
report. See <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11261>

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Matthieu Herrb