From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: rpluim@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: harfbuzz 2f72162: Fix crash in the Cairo build
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 17:33:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83va1ql4r4.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <kd8syn1oeg.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from Glenn Morris on Sun, 10 Feb 2019 13:36:39 -0500)
> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> 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.
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[not found] ` <20181214085418.6616820538@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
2018-12-14 12:18 ` harfbuzz 2f72162: Fix crash in the Cairo build Robert Pluim
2018-12-14 13:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-12-14 14:09 ` Robert Pluim
2018-12-14 16:16 ` Robert Pluim
2018-12-14 16:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-12-17 12:41 ` Robert Pluim
2018-12-17 17:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-12-18 8:49 ` Robert Pluim
2018-12-18 13:01 ` Robert Pluim
2019-02-08 8:01 ` Robert Pluim
2019-02-08 8:04 ` Robert Pluim
2019-02-08 8:06 ` Robert Pluim
2019-02-08 9:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-08 11:46 ` Robert Pluim
2019-02-08 13:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-08 14:38 ` Robert Pluim
2019-02-08 16:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-08 16:41 ` Robert Pluim
2019-02-08 21:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-09 19:20 ` Glenn Morris
2019-02-09 19:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-10 14:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-02-10 15:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-10 18:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-02-10 18:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-10 18:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-02-11 9:56 ` Robert Pluim
2019-02-10 18:30 ` Glenn Morris
2019-02-10 14:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-10 18:36 ` Glenn Morris
2019-02-11 15:33 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2018-12-17 21:49 ` Paul Eggert
2018-12-18 8:23 ` Robert Pluim
2018-12-19 8:32 ` Robert Pluim
2018-12-19 15:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-12-14 20:25 ` Stefan Monnier
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