[ft-devel] Re: xorg crashes with freetype2-2.1.10

[Hin-Tak Leung]

Jeremy Messenger wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 00:39:56 -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke 
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> 
> Okay, I have played with it more.. Guess what? Hin-Tak is right about  
> rename the name do cause the trouble for freetype2 2.1.10 with no 
> patch.  The old freetype2 do accept the rename but not now in freetype2 
> 2.1.10.
> 
> no-crash:    Run those..
>             # cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/webfonts
>             # rm fonts.*
>             # mkfontscale
>             # mkfontdir
>             # fc-cache -f -v
> 
> crash:        Same way above, but rename all microsoft and monotype to
>         webfonts.
> 
> no-crash:    Edit x11-fonts/webfonts/Makefile by remove the rename
>         microsoft and monotype part. Just leave name default.
> 
> crash:        Leave x11-fonts/webfonts/Makefile alone and let rename
>         microsoft and monotype to webfonts.
> 
> I think I am going to modify webfonts to use mkfontscale and mkfontdir  
> since it comes with xorg and remove the rename part. Then contact to 
> the  maintainer with patch.

Hmm, the first (font vendor) part is not arbitrary - I think mkfontdir read
the fonts themselves to work out the vendor part - 'webfont' is most certainly
not consistent with what the font file itself says.

		
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