Font rendering problem in 1.6 branch (fine in 1.5 and master)

Keith Packard keithp at keithp.com
Sat Jan 17 18:49:09 PST 2009


On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 14:58 -0800, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Jeremy Huddleston
> <jeremyhu at freedesktop.org> wrote:
> > Ah... I figured it out...  It has to do with --enable-builtin-fonts
> > going from "no" by default in 1.5 to "yes" by default in 1.6 to being
> > removed in master.
> >
> > If this is being punted in master, and has been off in previous
> > releases, should we turn it back off in 1.6 by reverting
> > 385943e0e97463ce4681a9b6a4a40d7e3c91e51e ?
> >
> > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=385943e0e97463ce4681a9b6a4a40d7e3c91e51e
> 
> What about backporting 49b93df8a3002db7196aa3fc1fd8dca1c12a55d6 to 1.6?
> 
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=49b93df8a3002db7196aa3fc1fd8dca1c12a55d6

I'm good with either pulling the master stuff to 1.6 or reverting the
1.6-specific change. But, I'd need to see a patch from the 1.6 branch
and the promise that someone (or ones) tested it.

I had to hack googleearth to remove the custom libQt so that I could get
fonts displayed in that application...

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keith.packard at intel.com
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