On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Stefan Dirsch wrote:

>> > No. Will be some work to extract the CVS diff for me. So you can't
>> > reproduce this problem with 4.3.0? I'll have a try with 4.3.0 now
>> > before looking deeper into this issue.
>> 
>> I've just tried xf86cfg under 4.3 and didn't have any difficulties.  One 
>> thing I did have to do was clean out ancient drivers from the modules 
>> directory -- I had several seg faults until I made sure I didn't have 
>> anything older than 4.3 installed.
>
>Strange. It only happens if "libfreetype.so" render module exists. I
>compile this against system libfreetype to get rid of some bugs in
>freetype2 which comes with XFree86 (some fonts can't be displayed any
>more which worked with freetype1 based freetype module).  After
>loading this module every module gets a
>
>  ERROR SIGSEGV caught!
>
>after loading.
>
>[...]
>Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libfreetype.so
>Module freetype: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
>        compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 2.0.2
>Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libfreetype.so
>Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libtype1.a
>Module type1: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
>        compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 1.0.2
>  ERROR SIGSEGV caught!
>Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a
>Module bitmap: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
>        compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 1.0.0
>  ERROR SIGSEGV caught!
>
>Maybe xf86cfg can't handle these modules. XFree86 loader can.


Hmm.  Perhaps this is related to the setjmp() et al. changes 
lately?  Just a thought...

-- 
Mike A. Harris


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