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authorChong Yidong <[email protected]>2009-04-25 14:43:35 +0000
committerChong Yidong <[email protected]>2009-04-25 14:43:35 +0000
commitaf17b9836bbee39c102c0fcc5579d6839e7272ec (patch)
tree64ad4400d7458dfa27390993af2b9e394ce45924 /configure.in
parent7bbec45b62d5138f3b7321741d1975b3ca0669fc (diff)
Add comment for last change.
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 4e50285eaf..62bd100b1e 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -1880,10 +1880,11 @@ if test "${HAVE_X11}" = "yes"; then
HAVE_FREETYPE=no
- ### Use -lfreetype if available, unless `--with-freetype=no'.
+ ## We used to allow building with FreeType and without Xft.
+ ## However, the ftx font backend driver is not in good shape.
if test "${HAVE_XFT}" = "yes"; then
dnl As we use Xft, we anyway use freetype.
- dnl In this case, there's no need of additional CFLAGS and LIBS.
+ dnl There's no need for additional CFLAGS and LIBS.
HAVE_FREETYPE=yes
FONTCONFIG_CFLAGS=
FONTCONFIG_LIBS=