Xrender extension on AIX ??

From: Eric.Jones (Eric.Jones_at_hispeed.ch)
Date: 04/29/04 

Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 23:53:14 +0200

Anyone heard news on a possible appearance of Xrender in AIX 5.3 ??

(try xdpyinfo -queryExtensions
  or look in /usr/lpp/X11/include/X11/extensions
  for Xrender.h ...if you have access to a system)

It's getting more difficult lately to perform a clean build on AIX
for many of the major applications using gtk2 :

  . Gimp
  . Gnome
  . Mozilla

>/usr/local/gtk2/gtk+-2.4.0/configure
...
checking build system type... powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0
checking host system type... powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0
...
checking for freetype-config... /usr/local/bin/freetype-config
configure: error: Pango 1.2.0 and Xft backend is required for x11 target

>libXft configure:
..
checking for xrender
checking X11/extensions/Xrender.h usability... no
checking X11/extensions/Xrender.h presence... no
checking for X11/extensions/Xrender.h... no
configure: error: Xrender.h not found.

Rather than everyone having to rebuild the X11 extensions personally,
it would be nice if IBM would provide a supported Xrender extension
as part of the standard X11 package.

After all, Sun has provided Xrender in Solaris-9 (12/02 release):
http://docs.sun.com/db/doc/817-3801/6mjcck32q?a=view#whatsnew-updates-58
Might also help to counter some of their FUD about IBM
"..supporting Linux at the cost of not evolving AIX anymore."

Eric