[Fontconfig] Re: No bitmap fonts in XFree86 4.3.0

Nicholas Wourms nwourms at myrealbox.com
Fri May 30 04:38:43 EST 2003


Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
> TH> How old would it have to be not to work? I've just deleted the files
> TH> from the Debian package (2.1.4) and verified with ldd that fc-cache is
> TH> using the libfreetype2 that came with XFree86 4.3, and rerun it with -f,
> TH> but it still isn't working.
> 
> The one that comes with XFree86 is a patched 2.1.3.  Please use the
> Debian 2.1.4-2 instead, which appears to be okay as far as PCF and PCF.gz
> are concerned.
> 
> (Stock 2.1.4 is still buggy w.r.t. BDF, although Debian might have
> backported the fixes.)

Looks like David just sync'd with 2.1.4, however he made a merge error. 
  On 2001-09-14, Keith had explicitly enabled the bytecode interpreter. 
  It looks as if it was accidently reverted in the process.

Cheers,
Nicholas




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