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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Where is Xft.h ?
From:       Thomas Leitner <tom () radar ! tu-graz ! ac ! at>
Date:       2002-03-01 12:35:46
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On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, David Faure wrote:

> On Thursday 28 February 2002 16:11, you wrote:
> >
> > koffice/karbon/vtext.cc needs Xft.h which is supposed to be from the
> > freetype library. I've just downloaded the freetype library from
> > www.freetype.org but there's no Xft.h:
> >
> > al06(4)~/prog/freetype/freetype-2.0.8> find . -name Xft.h
> > al06(5)~/prog/freetype/freetype-2.0.8>
>
> libXft is part of XFree - but should also be available separately.
> libXft _uses_ libfreetype, but it's another library. You need both.
> Or none, since karbon checks for the existence of Xft now, I think.

I've just investigated this:

a.) I could not find a libXft available separately from XFree86.
b.) I took libXft from XFree86 4.2.0 and tried to compile it!
    It depends on the XRender X-Server extension !!!

All in all: This is a rather unpleasant situation for us non-Linux people
because Xft is not easily available and even worse: It depends on a
special X server extension!

Any cure for that? I don't know what it means for karbon to be compiled
without FreeType but I suspect that it makes it quite useless, doesn't it?

Tom

 
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