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
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