On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 10:34:09AM -0700, Keith Packard wrote: > > > I'd also like to see the fonts moved to arch any, I got side tracked > > attempting to switch from .pcf.gz to .ttf format, but there's no reason we > > can't simply compile to .pcf.gz on i386 and ship them from there -- every > > arch can load that format and the overhead is minimal (bitswapping on > > big-endian boxes). When upstream moves to .ttf, we will be ready. > > Point of Debian order here; what you (and I) want is arch "all" (build once > for all arches), rather than "any" (built for any one arch). > > This has been a long-standing wishlist request, which was languished because > (as I understand it), nobody wanted to futz with the imake build system > enough to make it possible, and I can't blame anyone for that. If the X.Org > build system makes this possible, then that's great.
I have been working on this issue already. It is possible to build fonts as arch "all" with a small hack, but it still requires a bit of magic for a few Imake that gives life to man pages for scripts that are font related [0][1]. It is also in the TODO list for one of the next X uploads [2]. Fabio [0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2004/04/msg01058.html [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2004/04/msg01060.html [2] http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xsf/XFree86/trunk/debian/TODO -- <user> fajita: step one <fajita> Whatever the problem, step one is always to look in the error log. <user> fajita: step two <fajita> When in danger or in doubt, step two is to scream and shout.
