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Xext: remove the XF86-BigFont extension
XF86-BigFont lets local clients share font-metrics arrays via SysV
shared memory (and compresses them for remote clients) -- a local-only
optimization dating back to ancient XFree86. It hasn't been built by
default for really long time.

Enabling it in our CI immediately exposed that the code has bit-rotted
on 7 non-Linux CI lanes (macOS/BSD: including a nonexistent Linux-only
header; Solaris: an ARRAY_SIZE redefinition pulled in via its system
headers; mingw32: implicit geteuid()/getegid() plus an unused variable).
Concrete evidence that this extension currently has no real users
exercising it, since none of that breakage was ever noticed.

Therefore no practical need for carrying it around any longer.

Signed-off-by: Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult <info@metux.net>
2026-07-27 18:31:44 +02:00
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damage treewide: replace min/max macros by non-exported MIN/MAX and deprecate them 2026-06-25 14:06:17 +02:00
rootless treewide: replace min/max macros by non-exported MIN/MAX and deprecate them 2026-06-25 14:06:17 +02:00
shadow miext: parentheses around macro argument symbols 2026-06-24 14:13:33 +02:00
sync miext: parentheses around macro argument symbols 2026-06-24 14:13:33 +02:00
extinit_priv.h Xext: remove the XF86-BigFont extension 2026-07-27 18:31:44 +02:00