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Re: xterm 185-3 freetype

From: Thomas Dickey <dickey at his dot com>
To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 17:09:40 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: xterm 185-3 freetype
References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0403250330340.17364-100000@ares.its.yale.edu>
Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com

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?

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net

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