Re: tlug: XFree86 + X-TrueType: Success!

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "Matt" == Matt Gushee <matt@example.com> writes:

    Matt> Hmm. My experience w/ xfstt

Sorry, I forgot there were two different ones.  I've had no problems
with the TL X11R6*TT* series from TL-3.0-USA (last beta), whichever
that is---except for the slows.

>>>>> "chris" == Chris Sekiya <chris@example.com> writes:

    Chris> On Mon, 21 Dec 1998, Matt Gushee wrote:
    >> In any case, I thought I might want a separate font server,
    >> that's why I built all of XFree86 and not just the server.

    Chris> Well, uh, you know ... the next time you do that, you might
    Chris> want to set BuildServersOnly to 'yes' in host.def -- then
    Chris> cd into programs/xfs and 'xmkmf -a; make'.  That will save
    Chris> a lot of disk space and time.

Doesn't that hose Wnn?

Joke, joke---but one certainly wants to be careful futzing with X11
Imake configuration if you are trying to support Japanese.  The Imake
stuff for Wnn 4.2 is the ugliest kludge I ever saw in my life; the
programmer who wrote it will certainly burn in Hell.  Canna is a lot
better, but there were a few system dependencies in there (as of 3.2,
a long time ago, though) that shouldn't be.  I haven't looked at
kinput2's Imakefile, but I wouldn't bet on a clean bill of health :-(.

And anybody with a RedHat system should watch out; who knows what evil
lurks in the heart of RedHat.cnf.  Only the Shadow.... :-)  (BTW,
RedHat.cnf does not exist, AFAIK, but I'm willing to bet that they
have made patches to the X11 config without worrying about forward or
backward compatibility.  I know they sinned with X11R6.1 on the Sparc.)

The BuildServersOnly #define should be safe, though.  :-)

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