From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2015 16:59:26 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] freetype: Add config option for bzip2 compressed font support In-Reply-To: <5444216A.3060103@mind.be> (Arnout Vandecappelle's message of "Sun, 19 Oct 2014 22:39:06 +0200") References: <1413599958-24524-1-git-send-email-maarten@treewalker.org> <5442672B.1000500@mind.be> <3620793.9UjUVpDraY@hyperion> <5444216A.3060103@mind.be> Message-ID: <87pp9rasv5.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>>>> "Arnout" == Arnout Vandecappelle writes: Hi, >>> So unless you can show me a use case where it makes a real impact, it's a >>> NACK. >> >> The menu we're using (GMenu2X) uses FreeType via SDL_ttf, not via a large >> GUI toolkit. Dropping the libbzip2 dependency reduces the number of >> libraries loaded from 12 to 11. I haven't benchmarked how many milliseconds >> of a difference that makes in startup time. >> >> Note that the only place where bzip2 compression is actually supported by >> FreeType is when opening PCF files. Disabling the feature has no effect on >> support for other font formats such as TTF. > Okay, let's leave it up to the Benevolent Dictator to make the call. If it's a > go, and the depends on is changed into a select like Maxime requested, it gets > my Reviewed-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) Sorry - We discussed it at the Buildroot developer days, and agreed that it it isn't worth the trouble to have an explicit option for this. -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard