Created attachment 17378 [details] [review] Add configure option "--disable-fc", which disables font server support In libXfont-1.3.1, there is the configure option "--disable-fc", which disables the code to connect to a font server. In xorg-server-1.4.2, in "confdefs.h" there is the #define "NOFONTSERVERACCESS", but the only way to set it is by passing "--enable-builtin-fonts" to "configure". I think it can be useful to compile an X server which only supports client-side fonts, but does not have them built into the server itself. Therefore I would like to have a configure option to set the "NOFONTSERVERACCESS" #define. I attached a patch that adds the "--disable-fc" configure option, which sets "NOFONTSERVERACCESS". It required adding one "#ifndef" in "dix/dixfonts.c", all other changes are in "configure.ac". The existing "--enable-builtin-fonts" option implies "--disable-fc". This is handled by giving the "fc" option the default value "auto", which acts as "enabled". If "--enable-builtin-fonts" is given, a warning is printed and "fc" is forcibly disabled. An alternative would be to silently disable "fc" if it was in "auto" mode and raise an error if it was in "enabled" mode (explicitly enabled by the user). I usually prefer programs to refuse invalid inputs instead of automatically correcting them. However, I looked for similar situations in "configure.ac" and saw that for example "--disable-dga" is handled by printing a warning and forced disabling, so I conformed to that.
commit 75536ee80595c79bba95a1fb6844126ee08486d4 Author: Tiago Vignatti <tiago.vignatti@nokia.com> Date: Wed Jun 23 15:18:03 2010 +0300 dix: use one single function to register fpe fonts Since this commit the server supports whatever backends are configured in libXfont, so that should cover this request.
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