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Date:      04 Feb 2003 09:10:36 -0800
From:      Eric Anholt <anholt@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com>
Cc:        Alan Eldridge <alane@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/x11/kdebase3 Makefile
Message-ID:  <1044378636.615.10.camel@leguin>
In-Reply-To: <200302031408.14342.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com>
References:  <200302031235.h13CZwGB073669@repoman.freebsd.org> <200302031408.14342.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com>

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On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 11:08, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> Qt-3.1 can be configured with ``-xft'' and with very minor patching will
> build against Xft2. Do we want such a thing? I have it built that way,
> and the characters seem to look better on my screen.
> 
> Will our next XFree86-4-libraries provide Xft2 instead of Xft?

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.

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.

-- 
Eric Anholt                                eta@lclark.edu          
http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/         anholt@FreeBSD.org


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