Re: Dependency libraries and ABI

[Keith Packard <keithp keithp com>]

Around 9 o'clock on Feb 28, James Henstridge wrote:

> Is it possible to build Xft2 outside of the X source tree?  If so, then 
> maybe it would be okay to tell people that they needed to update their 
> Xft in order to get AA text.  Telling everyone to upgrade their X libs 
> (which may involve building the whole X tree) sounds less likely to happen.

Yes, Xft can be set up to build outside the tree.  That's what Mozilla is 
doing.  You also need fontconfig which has some broken automake stuff that 
I'm going move over to autoconf.  Plus you need expat.

Keith Packard        XFree86 Core Team        Compaq Cambridge Research Lab