From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: harfbuzz 2f72162: Fix crash in the Cairo build Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 17:33:03 +0200 Message-ID: <83va1ql4r4.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20181214085417.15440.18845@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <20181214085418.6616820538@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <831s6kgrtj.fsf@gnu.org> <83pnu4f45d.fsf@gnu.org> <837eg8dpd6.fsf@gnu.org> <83zhr6pqmr.fsf@gnu.org> <83womapgll.fsf@gnu.org> <83lg2qp8eq.fsf@gnu.org> <83d0o2otod.fsf@gnu.org> <0oy36o22he.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83lg2nn12x.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="104721"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: rpluim@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 11 16:33:36 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gtDaS-000R4Z-2D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2019 16:33:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51777 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gtDaR-0000WS-1S for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2019 10:33:35 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:57655) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gtDaC-0000Tp-Rp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2019 10:33:25 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:32864) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gtDaA-0000on-Qj; Mon, 11 Feb 2019 10:33:18 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2224 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1gtDaA-0007Dv-9p; Mon, 11 Feb 2019 10:33:18 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Glenn Morris on Sun, 10 Feb 2019 13:36:39 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:233217 Archived-At: > From: Glenn Morris > Cc: rpluim@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2019 13:36:39 -0500 > > Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > Btw, as long as we are talking about this: could you please tell why > > configure.ac disables HAVE_FREETYPE when the build is without XFT? > > AFAIU, ftxfont needs Freetype, so if we disabvle the latter, ftxfont > > cannot be a replacement for XFT. > > I don't think it's my doing. See af17b98 and 7bbec45 (from 2009). > "We used to allow building with FreeType and without Xft. > However, the ftx font backend driver is not in good shape." > I don't imagine it has improved in the past decade. > > Ref also > http://lists.gnu.org/r/emacs-devel/2009-04/msg00514.html > > where pretty much the same discussion seems to have been going on. Ah, okay. So you are saying that we've already effectively deprecated and disabled ftxfont 10 years ago? In that case, we could indeed retire it in Emacs 27. Thanks.