From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 30 21:14:41 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C68716A4CE; Thu, 30 Dec 2004 21:14:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rooster.cisco.com (hen.cisco.com [64.102.19.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCAC543D2D; Thu, 30 Dec 2004 21:14:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marcus@FreeBSD.org) Received: from [64.102.192.239] (dhcp-64-102-192-239.cisco.com [64.102.192.239]) by rooster.cisco.com (8.11.7+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id iBULEde07671; Thu, 30 Dec 2004 16:14:39 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <41D46FC0.5080603@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 16:14:40 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke Organization: FreeBSD, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Macintosh/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kris Kennaway References: <20041230195320.GA91304@xor.obsecurity.org> <41D46431.4000808@FreeBSD.org> <20041230203049.GA11245@xor.obsecurity.org> <41D46A22.5030906@FreeBSD.org> <20041230211112.GA20159@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20041230211112.GA20159@xor.obsecurity.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: netchild@FreeBSD.org cc: x11@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: linux vs freebsd fc-cache binaries X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 21:14:41 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Kris Kennaway wrote: | On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 03:50:42PM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: | | |>|>The problem might be the version of freetype2 being used in linux_base. |>|>~ There was a bug a while back where it would not process bitmapped |>|>fonts. I can't say for certain, but linux_base-8 does use a pretty old |>|>version of freetype2. Could also be a fontconfig problem. What version |>|>of fontconfig is being used? |>| |>| |>| fontconfig-2.1-9.i386.rpm |>| freetype-2.1.2-7.${ARCH}.rpm |>| |>| I wonder if updates are available for redhat 8.x. |> |>I think I found the problem. Freetype2-2.1.2 didn't support gzip'd |>fonts. That said, we really should be at 2.1.4 or higher for proper |>gzip support. | | | Yes, this seems to be the problem. | | |>Not sure if an updated RPM is available, though. | | | I couldn't find one on the mirror site. This is annoying..looks like | we'll either have to | | * ship a linux_base with crappy font rendering, add the errata entry | and then deal with all the support mail from people who don't read it. | | * Make the XFree86 and xorg font ports not install gzipped fonts, | until we can update again to a newer linux_base after the release. * Find someone that can create a RedHat 8 RPM of freetype2-2.1.4 or higher (preferably 2.1.7). I'm sure one of our users could do this, and it wouldn't hurt to ask. I mean, RH 8 isn't supported anymore anyway, so it wouldn't be like we're going to be causing ourselves any extra grief. Joe | | Kris - -- Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFB1G/Ab2iPiv4Uz4cRAiAjAJ9vpXwaIknmdSKYi/4Aaj4ApMdDfwCfXytz uqVtippqJtWrBsWlmqFBKwg= =KulY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----