186843 – app-editors/emacs-22.1 xft use flag request

Bug 186843 - app-editors/emacs-22.1 xft use flag request

Summary: app-editors/emacs-22.1 xft use flag request

Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	x86 Linux

Importance:	High enhancement
Assignee:	Emacs project

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Reported:	2007-07-27 21:34 UTC by Rayne Olivetti
Modified:	2007-07-28 18:39 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Rayne Olivetti 2007-07-27 21:34:53 UTC

Though --with-xft is necessary for altering fonts, there seems to be no way though portage to complie with it.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Rayne Olivetti 2007-07-27 21:37:46 UTC

And --with-freetype and --enable-font-backend options, please!

Comment 2 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2007-07-28 00:32:35 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 110626 ***

Comment 3 Rayne Olivetti 2007-07-28 02:14:10 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> 
> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 110626 ***
> 

Not exactly. Before marking it as a dup: what're you going to do --with-freetype and --enable-font-backend switches?

Comment 4 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2007-07-28 08:21:51 UTC

(In reply to comment #3)
> Before marking it as a dup: what're you going to do --with-freetype and
> --enable-font-backend switches?

Emacs 22.1 supports neither --with-xft, --with-freetype, nor --enable-font-backend as configure options. From its etc/TODO file:

** Add support for rendering antialiased text, probably using XRender/Freetype.

So, unless you expect us to backport major amounts of code from the emacs-unicode-2 CVS branch (which we won't), I don't see what we could do here.