[Fontconfig] No bitmap fonts in XFree86 4.3.0

Tony Houghton lists at realh.co.uk
Tue May 27 22:15:21 EST 2003


In <E19KTeb-0000FG-00 at localhost>, Keith Packard wrote:

> 
> Around 23 o'clock on May 26, Tony Houghton wrote:
> 
> > fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1": caching, 29 fonts, 0 dirs
> > fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi": caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs
> 
> It appears that you have an older version of FreeType2 installed somewhere 
> that is getting picked up by your applications.  Old FreeType2 bits would 
> fail to load .pcf.gz fonts correctly.

How old would it have to be not to work? I've just deleted the files
from the Debian package (2.1.4) and verified with ldd that fc-cache is
using the libfreetype2 that came with XFree86 4.3, and rerun it with -f,
but it still isn't working.

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