Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 12:19:24 -0500 From: Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com> To: Eric Anholt <anholt@freebsd.org> Cc: Alan Eldridge <alane@freebsd.org>, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/x11/kdebase3 Makefile Message-ID: <200302041219.24215.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com> In-Reply-To: <1044378636.615.10.camel@leguin> References: <200302031235.h13CZwGB073669@repoman.freebsd.org> <200302031408.14342.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com> <1044378636.615.10.camel@leguin>
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On Tuesday 04 February 2003 12:10 pm, Eric Anholt wrote: = It would be best if QT could use Xft2, as that's the future. In stock = XFree86 4.3, Xft1 programs compiled against it use the Xft2 library. = The backwards compatibility is not perfect, so for now we will = continue to have libXft2.so.2. In stock XF86, it's called libXft.so.2 = and there's a binary-compatible Xft1 library at libXft.so.1 which = nothing new ends up using. The current XFree86 4.3-pre ports I'm = working on continue with the libXft2.so.2 system we've had. I'm sorry, could you elaborate on the advantage of libXft2.so.2 over the libXft.so.2? I understand, that the older binaries need the libXft.so.1, but why call the new version libXft2? This will force us to patch a lot of things (starting with Qt)... If it is for compatibility with something we already shipped, how about symlinking libXft2.so.x to libXft.so.2? = Hopefully by the time 4.3 hits the tree we'll have the Xft1 programs = with problems converted to Xft2 or fixed, so they can work without the = renaming of libraries/includes that we currently do. = The Xft2 port will continue to exist. I think the more we keep these = libraries split from being a monolithic build, the better. Agreed -- if it means, the XFree86-4-libraries (or -clients) will depend on it -- like it does on freetype2 -- instead of building its own :-) Yours, -mi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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