xterm 185-3 freetype

Thomas Dickey dickey@his.com
Thu Mar 25 23:11:00 GMT 2004


On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, Lev Bishop wrote:

> xterm 185-3 doesn't seem to have freetype/xft/fontconfig/etc support. it
> ignores the faceName resource, and doesn't recognize the -fa command line
> option. also cygcheck shows no dependence on
> C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\cygXft-2.dll. however, version 185-2 is fine.

That would be because the configure script didn't find the libraries -
I assume, since the configure script normally tries to check for those.
It looks for xft-config (the script that tells how to compile/link).
Perhaps that has been renamed?

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