Re: Upgrade fontconfig in cvs.
On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Boris wrote: Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 10:28:37 -0600 From: Boris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary==_NextPart_000_0005_01C3A450.BD38C8A0 Subject: Upgrade fontconfig in cvs. It seems the fontconfig in cvs is very old (1.0.2) and needs to be upgraded to 2.2.0. Reading varios emails and posts, it seems the older fontconfig has problems with some TrueType fonts and the 2.2.xx files the problem. Also the fc-cache v1.0.2 crashes (segmentation fault) when run during system startup where as 2.2.0 does not have that problem. Any possible way we could get the latest fontconfig into the xfree86 cvs? To avoid the SEGV, run fc-cache as: HOME=/ fc-cache btw. I downloading it from anoncvs and then make World. I recommend just using the upstream fontconfig instead. It's easier to stay current that way, and to update it separately. Wouldn't hurt of course though to update the included fontconfig also, it does have many stability, performance and other improvements. Might be considered too late at this point though, but most Linux and other OS distributions I think ship the newer fontconfigs for quite a while now, so it shouldn't be too hard to find prebuilt packages for many OS's also. Take care, TTYL -- Mike A. Harris ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
Re: Upgrade fontconfig in cvs.
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 12:27:44PM -0500, David Dawes wrote: On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 10:28:37AM -0600, Boris wrote: It seems the fontconfig in cvs is very old (1.0.2) and needs to be upgraded to 2.2.0. Reading varios emails and posts, it seems the older fontconfig has problems with some TrueType fonts and the 2.2.xx files the problem. Also the fc-cache v1.0.2 crashes (segmentation fault) when run during system startup where as 2.2.0 does not have that problem. Any possible way we could get the latest fontconfig into the xfree86 cvs? The fontconfig version in the current XFree86 CVS is 2.1.0. For whatever reason, various version strings were not updated when the version got bumped from 1.x to 2.x. Bug fixes are welcome, but the feature freeze date was about three weeks ago. I have found/fixed/committed what is likely the segfault cause -- the result of getenv(HOME) not being checked before being dereferenced. David -- David Dawes developer/release engineer The XFree86 Project www.XFree86.org/~dawes ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
Re: Upgrade fontconfig in cvs.
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 10:28:37AM -0600, Boris wrote: It seems the fontconfig in cvs is very old (1.0.2) and needs to be upgraded to 2.2.0. Reading varios emails and posts, it seems the older fontconfig has problems with some TrueType fonts and the 2.2.xx files the problem. Also the fc-cache v1.0.2 crashes (segmentation fault) when run during system startup where as 2.2.0 does not have that problem. Any possible way we could get the latest fontconfig into the xfree86 cvs? The fontconfig version in the current XFree86 CVS is 2.1.0. For whatever reason, various version strings were not updated when the version got bumped from 1.x to 2.x. Bug fixes are welcome, but the feature freeze date was about three weeks ago. David -- David Dawes Founder/committer/developer The XFree86 Project www.XFree86.org/~dawes ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
