Re: fontconfig-2.1.92 considered harmful

From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus_at_marcuscom.com>
Date: 17 Apr 2003 13:08:43 -0400
On Thu, 2003-04-17 at 13:02, Lars Eggert wrote:
> Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > 
> > Both anholt and I were quick on the draw, but Eric beat me.  Checkout
> > ports/50791 for an update to freetype2 which should alleviate this
> > problem.
> 
> Not sure if this is related, but fc-cache coredumps when trying to 
> upgrade to fontconfig-2.1.94 during the installation:
> 
> ===>   Generating temporary packing list
> Running fc-cache to build fontconfig cache...
> [...snip...]
> fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local": caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs
> fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc": caching, 51 fonts, 0 dirs
> fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/util": caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs
> fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/URW": caching, 35 fonts, 0 dirs
> fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType": Segmentation fault (core 
> dumped)
> *** Error code 139
> 
> Stop in /usr/ports/x11-fonts/fontconfig.
> 
> The directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType has a bunch of symlinks 
> to my Windows TT fonts (under /windows/WINDOWS/Fonts/), and a fonts.dir 
> and fonts.scale created by an rc.d script 
> (http://www.isi.edu/larse/etc/rc.d/truetype).
> 
> This approach worked with all older fontconfig ports without problems, 
> both on -stable and -current.
> 
> Any ideas?

You need to recompile with debugging symbols enabled, then get a
backtrace.  Thanks.

Joe

> 
> Thanks,
> Lars
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