In article <20030609151517.GB3668@azenomei.knuffel.net> you write:
>I was just looking at the 1.6.1 install sets, and it surprised me that
>they were not in the shared/ALL directory. In fact they differed for
>each of the 3 architectures I was downloading:
>
>-rw-r--r-- rhialto  15513696 Apr 14 02:17 ./i386/binary/sets/xfont.tgz
>-rw-r--r-- rhialto   5863237 Apr 14 02:16 ./alpha/binary/sets/xfont.tgz
>-rw-r--r-- rhialto   5384932 Apr 14 02:20 ./vax/binary/sets/xfont.tgz
>
>I would think that even if they were endian-sensitive, just 2 different
>sets would suffice. And if the difference is caused by having different
>collections of fonts or something like that, then that seems to be a bug
>to me, since I would absolutely expect the same fonts on all
>architectures. So, what is going on?

Some ports use XFree86 3, and some use XFree86 4.  They come with different
fonts.  I suspect the vax vs alpha difference may be down to the size of a
"long", though I haven't looked at the internals of PCF.

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Ben Harris                                                   <bjh21@netbsd.org>
Portmaster, NetBSD/acorn26           <URL:http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/acorn26/>