[oclug]Fonts revisited

[Shad Young]

Never mind... I should learn to spell, its there...

So what the heck does that error mean

Shad

On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 14:05, Shad Young wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 20:24, smoynes at nexus.carleton.ca wrote:
> > * Shad Young (shad.young at sympatico.ca) wrote:
> > > I have no idea what Netscape/Mozilla/Galeon were built against (I am
> > > not really sure how I would find out). NS(and moz which seem to be
> > > sharing most parts) was a binary (3 actually) package in contrib.
> > 
> > Last time I checked, galeon does not (yet) used gtk2. Gtk2 uses XFT to
> > give you smooth fonts. The binaries Netscape and Mozilla provide do
> > not use XFT. (Again, last I checked.) You can compile mozilla to use
> > XFT, but it is sort of a hassle to do so. If you don't want to compile
> > it and your distribution doesn't provide support, you are pretty much
> > out of luck.
> 
> I have grabbed all of the tarballs for XFT2, and related dependencies.
> Compiling a test prog returns me a very useless error about "xmkmf being
> broken... - ensure all X devel are installed" Which they are according
> to MDK rpms, but there is no xmkfm installed on my system, an not more X
> del pkgs..
> 
> Anybody have any ideas?
> 
> Shad
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"Fortune should have the arbitrant of one-half of our actions, but she
leaves the other half, or a little less, to be governed by ourselves." 
- Machiavelli
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