Xfree CVS and Qt issues...

[Jerry McBride]

Anyone here playing with the Xfree CVS sources? I've got version 4.2.99.2 dated
december 17.

I've got it here, compiles no problems and it runs very fast...

The only hitch I have is compiling QT. During make, the compile terminates with
complaints of parsing problems... Xft.h.

I've been to both the QT and Xfree mailing lists and it seems there's been a
code change in the Xft portion of the  Xfree CVS tree and it kills compiling any
version of QT. I'm not clear why there has to be an Xft2... but I read that it's
progress.... right?

I've found a hacked way of getting QT to compile, but I was wondering if anyone
has found an elegant way of doing it.

What I do is compile xfree from CVS and install it. I then delete the files in
/usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft and replace them with copies from xfree version
4.2.0. I then grab /usr/X11R6/lib/libXft.so.1.0 and overlay it in the target
system. I then symlink /usr/X11R6/lib/libXft.so to /usr/X11R6/lib/libXft.so.1.0

All this does is backlevel Xft in the CVS code to the ones distributed in 4.2.0.
Once done, QT any version will compile without problems.

One small question before I go... is there a definitive list of options that
explains what's available for xfree compiling? I've picked up some tips from
Doug Hunley and use some of them in my host.def file. But what I'm looking for
is the one to turn off xinerama and whatever else may be available for getting
more performance out of xfree.




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