150090 - Remove --disable-freetype2 in official RPMs

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: Build Config, enhancement)

Description

[tanner]

Looking at Bug #130493, I am not sure why freetye is disabled in the offical
RPMs. Removing --disable-freetype2 and mozilla compiles and run successfully on
both Redhat 7.2 and Redhat 7.3 -with- TTF support.

I do not know what release of Redhat Bug #130493 talks about, but I think the
official RPMs should have TTF support included by default.

Comment 1

[hacker formerly known as [e-mail]]

RPMS -> Blizzard

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Official releases are tested against RH6.x, since that's the minimal OS
requirement....

Comment 3

[Christopher Blizzard (:blizzard)]

Nope, I don't want to have to support the freetype code long term.

Comment 4

[tanner]

What is the recommended way of supporting truetype fonts in mozilla under Linux?

The official(?) recommendation listed here: 

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/fonts/unix/enabling_truetype.html

States to use the FreeType2 library.

When you say, "I don't want to have to support the freetype code long term.",
you mean within the mozilla code base correct?

Comment 5

[Christopher Blizzard (:blizzard)]

Depends on who you ask.  :)  The long term plan is to integrate better with
existing font configuration systems and with fast rendering using xrender and
that means using Xft/fontconfig.  There are patches for that.  However, I don't
have any interest in supporting the prefs that go along with the current
truetype code.

Comment 6

[Jon Granrose]

verified wontfix.