RFE: Remove Speedo font support from the Xorg default build. - There were no new fonts in the Speedo font format for at least ten years - Sun has removed Speedo font support from their X distributions - Xfree86 disabled it for XF86 V4.4.0, too
Taking myself...
Created attachment 233 [details] [review] Prototype patch for 2004-04-22-XORG-CURRENT
Actually, Sun has not dropped support for Speedo fonts. The only font format we've EOL'ed recently was the long-dead proprietary F3 format.
Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Actually, Sun has not dropped support for Speedo fonts. The only font format > we've EOL'ed recently was the long-dead proprietary F3 format. I remember that I had to remove the Speedo font dir from the default font path in /etc/init.d/xprint because someone reported that the Xprt on Solaris didn't start with those fonts in the font path... I tought Sun had finally removed Speedo... better I check that against the EOS statements on docs.sun.com... my fault... ;-(
s/better I check that against the EOS statements on docs.sun.com/better I check such things against the EOS statements on docs.sun.com next time/
That sounds more like a bug in Xprt. In any case, I have no objection to disabling the support in the Xorg build.
Created attachment 239 [details] [review] Patch for 2004-04-25-trunk
Patch checked-in... Checking in ChangeLog; /cvs/xorg/xc/ChangeLog,v <-- ChangeLog new revision: 1.3; previous revision: 1.2 done Checking in config/cf/X11.tmpl; /cvs/xorg/xc/config/cf/X11.tmpl,v <-- X11.tmpl new revision: 1.3; previous revision: 1.2 done Checking in config/cf/site.def; /cvs/xorg/xc/config/cf/site.def,v <-- site.def new revision: 1.3; previous revision: 1.2 done Checking in config/cf/xfree86.cf; /cvs/xorg/xc/config/cf/xfree86.cf,v <-- xfree86.cf new revision: 1.3; previous revision: 1.2 done Checking in config/cf/xorg.cf; /cvs/xorg/xc/config/cf/xorg.cf,v <-- xorg.cf new revision: 1.3; previous revision: 1.2 done Mailing the commit message to xorg-commit@pdx.freedesktop.org... ... marking bug as FIXED.
Speedo font support was disabled, but the fonts still get installed. This yields bug reports like: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=142744 The speedo fonts should be removed from the tree, or just not installed, otherwise if the speedo fonts get shipped, then the support should be turned back on so people can use them. Either solution is fine with me.
(In reply to comment #9) > Speedo font support was disabled, but the fonts still get installed. I don't see how that can possibly be true, since xorg.cf has the following stanza: #ifndef BuildSpeedoFonts # define BuildSpeedoFonts NO #endif and a grep for BuildSpeedoFonts.*YES in config/cf turns up exactly nothing.
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