Hi Graham, On 2026-01-15 09:10:52 -0100, Graham Inggs wrote: > On Thu, 15 Jan 2026 at 02:10, Vincent Lefevre <[email protected]> wrote: > > Summary: Before some use of Fontconfig, Motif needs to call FcInit(). > > This has always been required, but without any consequence until now. > > Do you have a reference for this? (that is has always been required)
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/fontconfig/fontconfig/-/issues/472 (it was given by Adam Sampsonin an earlier message). I'm currently discussing there about this issue with the developer Akira Tagoh. > > With libfontconfig1 2.17.1-3, which is now in unstable, one gets a > > warning on stderr. > > You could file a bug against fontconfig 2.17.1-3 to prevent it from > migrating to testing for now. Other packages might also be affected. I've done testing with various applications, including gucharmap and gnuplot, for which one can see complaints about this warning on the web (several months ago), but I cannot see a warning with them. For gnuplot, the user made the warning disappear by recompiling the cairo library: https://sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot/bugs/2817/ So I suspect that there were such bugs in other software, but they have been fixed in the mean time. For GTK3, this has been fixed: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/7639 Ditto for Firefox: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1974722 Concerning xpdf and Motif, I suppose that there hasn't been a report before because they are little used. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Pascaline project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
