Ghostty can be built with -Dfont-backend=freetype, which uses FreeType without any font discovery. The Rust port only had fontconfig+freetype (default on Linux) and the CoreText variants. The new cargo feature `font-backend-freetype` on ghostty-font (forwarded by ghostty-cli and the root crate; non-Apple, non-wasm targets) behaves like Zig's mode: font-family discovery, fallback search and codepoint-map overrides are skipped (embedded fonts only); +list-fonts and +show-face print Zig's "built without a font discovery mechanism" message and exit 1; +version reports `.freetype`. The default backend is unchanged. Also registers the Rust-only benchmark tooling extensions (--time, --handler=full, ghostty-synthetic +sgr) in DEVIANT_FIXES.md. Note: `--all-features` now selects this backend for the workspace. Test Plan: - cargo test -p ghostty-font --features font-backend-freetype (198) - cargo build --features font-backend-freetype && ghostty +list-fonts
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# Z19: font-backend=freetype feature, DEVIANT_FIXES additions (RV16)
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## Font backend `freetype` (Zig `-Dfont-backend=freetype`)
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- Cargo feature `font-backend-freetype` on `ghostty-font`, forwarded by `ghostty-cli` and the root crate (`cargo build --features font-backend-freetype`). Default (fontconfig_freetype / coretext / web_canvas) unchanged. Non-Apple, non-wasm targets only (build.rs warns and ignores it elsewhere).
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- `build.rs` emits `font_discovery` (fontconfig or CoreText exists; Zig `Discover != void`); `font_fontconfig` is off in this mode. `Backend::name()` added; `OPTIONS` = `Backend::Freetype`; `ghostty_font::HAS_DISCOVERY`.
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- Zig behaviour matched: `Discover = void` (Rust: uninhabited stub `Discover`, never constructed); `DeferredFace` is empty (family/name "", load/has_codepoint unreachable); SharedGridSet skips the font-family search (primary fonts come from the embedded fallback only) and still adds the embedded emoji fonts; CodepointResolver has no discovery fallback and codepoint-map overrides return None; `+list-fonts` (after arg parsing) and `+show-face` (before parsing, written to stdout like Zig's writers) print the "built without a font discovery mechanism" message (no trailing newline) and exit 1. `+version` shows `.freetype`; crash options use `Backend::name()`.
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- Fontconfig sys crate is still linked (target dependency), just unused.
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- Tests: `cargo test -p ghostty-font --features font-backend-freetype` (198 pass), `cargo test -p ghostty-cli --features font-backend-freetype list_fonts`. shaper `test_util` now compiles without fontconfig (discovered-font tests skip). Note `--all-features` (just recipes) selects this backend workspace-wide.
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## DEVIANT_FIXES.md
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- Added row 33 (maximum-length NOTIFY_SOCKET: Zig `systemd.zig:116` writes `path[108]` after the `108 < len` check; Rust uses rustix `SocketAddrUnix::new`). Introduced in f8c5ce0. New regression test `notify_maximum_length_socket_path_is_rejected_safely` in `crates/ghostty-os/src/systemd.rs` (own hunk, for the orchestrator's fix-deviant commit).
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- Added "Benchmark / synthetic tooling extensions" row (`--time`, `--handler=full`, `+sgr`; commit 0c4f0ee) under Other deliberate deviations.
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