Re: wxt terminal in windows hangs

[Allin C. <cot...@wf...>]

On Mon, 17 Jan 2011, sfeam (Ethan Merritt) wrote:

> If the bug [in font-handling in the win32 backend to cairo] has
> been fixed in some more recent cairo version, the test on WIN32
> and cairo versioning in .../src/wxterminal/gp_cairo.c can be
> modified appropriately.

I've now tried building gnuplot (CVS) with the special switch on
WIN32 disabled, and running it with cairo 1.10.2. I'm not seeing
the problem of missing font-pixels that we observed back in
November 2009. I haven't tried a rigorous comparison against
freetype/fontconfig at this point, but first impression is that
maybe we don't need the work-around with current cairo.

Maybe bracket the special code with

#if CAIRO_VERSION_MAJOR < 2 && CAIRO_VERSION_MINOR < 10

or similar?  (At least as an experiment for CVS users.)

Allin Cottrell