[Xquartz-dev] XQuartz 2.8.0_rc3

Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia jeremyhu at apple.com
Mon Mar 15 18:02:49 PDT 2021


cairo will be in the next rc (along with libXp et al that were not included in 2.8.x)... possibly out later tonight or tomorrow.

--Jeremy

> On Mar 15, 2021, at 01:42, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa at Freenet.DE> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> Am 15.3.2021 um 06:38 schrieb Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia <jeremyhu at gmail.com>:
>> 
>>> Cairo is not contained in the release candidate.
>> 
>> Correct.  Cairo hasn't been included at all in 2.8.0.  See https://www.xquartz.org/releases/XQuartz-2.8.0_beta1.html
> 
> It must have been in some release:
> 
> 	otool -L /usr/local/bin/emacs-28.0.50 | grep cairo
> 		/opt/X11/lib/libcairo.2.dylib (compatibility version 11403.0.0, current version 11403.6.0)
> 
> /usr/local/bin/emacs-28.0.50 is a version of GNU Emacs that I built nine days ago with XQuartz-2.8.0_rc2. And it stopped working when I installed RC3.
> 
>> 
>> Do you have need of it?  If so, I can look into re-adding it.
>> 
> GNU Emacs uses Cairo and Harfbuzz for character shaping when outputting text. Actually both would be needed. Mostly I am using the libraries from MacPorts, so there is no real need for them in XQuartz.
> 
> --
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> 
>  Pete
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