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Re: Xft library warning?
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Ben Abbott |
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Re: Xft library warning? |
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Thu, 11 Jan 2018 06:37:17 -0800 |
> On Jan 10, 2018, at 11:47 PM, Mike Miller <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 19:38:24 -0800, Ben Abbott wrote:
>>> On Jan 10, 2018, at 19:32, Dmitri A. Sergatskov <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> I think freetype is a higher level library that uses Xft on X11 systems.
>
> It's the other way around, Xft is an interface for X11 to use FreeType.
>
>> Anyone know why Xft is needed by Octave? Is it used for the GUI, or is it
>> used for figure text objects?
>
> I think it is needed on GNU/Linux systems for FLTK. The Xft library is
> never used by Octave directly, the configure script only checks for it
> because a build error may occur on some systems that have FLTK installed
> but are missing Xft. It's more like Octave is making sure that the
> dependency is installed.
>
> See
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/octave-maintainers/2013-11/msg00629.html
>
> This may no longer be strictly necessary on current systems, but it
> might take some effort to be sure that it can be dropped safely.
>
> --
> mike
Ok. It sounds like we can safely ignore the warning on macOS (although it might
be nice to eliminate the warning when not using X11 on macOS).
Ben
- Xft library warning?, Ben Abbott, 2018/01/10
- Re: Xft library warning?, Dmitri A. Sergatskov, 2018/01/10
- Re: Xft library warning?, Ben Abbott, 2018/01/10
- Re: Xft library warning?, Mike Miller, 2018/01/11
- Re: Xft library warning?,
Ben Abbott <=
- Re: Xft library warning?, John W. Eaton, 2018/01/11
- Re: Xft library warning?, Ben Abbott, 2018/01/11
- Re: Xft library warning?, Mike Miller, 2018/01/11
- Re: Xft library warning?, John W. Eaton, 2018/01/11