freetype2, fontconfig, and rebuild of dependent packages coming shortly

[Harold L Hunt II]

Brian,

Nope, didn't evaporate... I even replied to it :)

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-10/msg00375.html

Harold

Brian Ford wrote:
> Well, I sent this last night before the new lesstif release, but somehow
> it evaporated.
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 17:49:30 -0600 (CST)
> From: Brian Ford <ford@vss.fsi.com>
> To: cygx <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
> Subject: Re: freetype2, fontconfig,
>      and rebuild of dependent packages coming shortly
> 
> On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> 
> 
>>I ran into an issue at the last minute when I looked at the LessTif
>>rebuild and realized that it was not using freetype and fontconfig
>>because it was looking in /usr/X11R6/bin for freetype-config and
>>fontconfig-config, when freetype-config has moved to /usr/bin and
>>fontconfig-config was will altogether.
>>
> 
> I thought we had decided to disable this support.  Did that change?
> 
> From http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-09/msg00441.html :
> 
> Additionally, I have disabled the experimental Xft support for antialiased
> fonts using freetype/fontconfig that was enabled by default in this
> release. For details about this choice, see:
> 
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-09/msg00348.html
> 
> Feedback about this issue is welcomed and should be directed to the
> cygwin-xfree mailing list mentioned at the end of this announcement.
> 
> And:
> 
> Changes:
> 
> * configure.in (AC_FIND_XFT): Disable Keith Packard's experimental Xft
> support.
> 
> Thanks.
>