Fwd: Semi-OT: Speed improvement from fontconfig

[Koos Vriezen]

On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 08:18:01PM +0200, Yves Glodt wrote:
> 
> Just for information... The mentioned patch really makes a difference, 
> especially visible on konsole.
> 
> ----------  Forwarded Message  ----------
> Subject: Semi-OT: Speed improvement from fontconfig
> Date: Thursday 20 October 2005 11:57
> From: Tom A <808131 at gmail.com>
> To: debian-kde at lists.debian.org
> 
> Hi,
> 
> This might not be news to everyone but I've just built the latest
> fontconfig snapshot which includes a performance fix described here -
> http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/1495
> 
> The increase in kde/app startup is significant so I thought it might
> be worth mentioning.
> 
> Here's how I built it (probably not the best way - eg. version number
>  breaks)...

Not an expert, but the diffs between the files in the two packages
debian/ dirs are quite small. Actually only changelog is broken, so
adding here (instead of first line):

fontconfig (2.3.91-1) unstable; urgency=low
  * Change section of fontconfig source package to libs (closes: #309864)

   -- Foo Bar <foo.bar at foo.org>  Thu, 20 Oct 2005 20:54:54 +0200

and then 
  dpkg-buildpackage  -rfakeroot
in root of package, build nicely the .deb files
(libfontconfig1-dev_2.3.91-1_i386.deb fontconfig_2.3.91-1_i386.deb
libfontconfig1_2.3.91-1_i386.deb is what I need) also preventing an
upgrade on next fontconfig-2.3.2 update from apt.

Runs fine .. hmm and now I forgot how slow it was ..

> apt-get build-dep fontconfig
> apt-get source fontconfig
> wget http://www.fontconfig.org/release/fontconfig-2.3.91.tar.gz
> tar -xzf fontconfig-2.3.91.tar.gz
> cp -a fontconfig-2.3.2/debian fontconfig-2.3.91/
> cd fontconfig-2.3.91/
> ./debian/rules build
> ./debian/rules binary
> # probably worth stopping kdm at this point
> dpkg -i fontconfig_2.3.2-1_i386.deb
> dpkg -i libfontconfig1_2.3.2-1_i386.deb
> 
> Of course the snapshot may be unstable in other ways so be careful....
> 
> :-)
> 
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