>> * Modify this extension's build procedure, on Alpha, to not use >> optimization. We certainly don't want to compile the entire X server >> without optimization.
Branden, I suggest you take this approach. Unfortunately, this will significantly slow down the speed of the rasteriser. I guess something like the following (untested!) in xc/lib/font/Imakefile should do the trick: #ifdef AlphaArchitecture CDEBUGFLAGS = /**/ #endif >> * Build X with gcc-3.0. I have built the latest experimental >> XFree86 4.2 packages with gcc-3.0 and they do fix this problem, and >> seem to work OK. Unless I'm mistaken, upstream do not officially support anything later than 2.95 yet. While upstream would be keen to get some wide-scale testing with GCC 3, I do not recommend this approach in testing; it's more of something that should be done in unstable. >> * Get X to switch to freetype 2 (libfreetype6 on Debian). This is >> a non-trivial change, as the API was completely rewritten. I'm glad you asked ;-) This will hopefully happen in XFree86 4.3.0. If you're willing to do some testing, please see http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/files/ If you're following upstream CVS, you will only need the main tarball. Juliusz
