linux fontconfig (was: Re: LDAP and Linux compatibility)

[Michael Collette]

On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 10:25:47 +0100, Alexander Leidinger
<Alexander at leidinger.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 11:25:19 -0800
> Michael Collette <metrol.net at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> [Thread moved to freebsd-emulation]
> 
> > Now my problem has to do with linux-fontconfig.  Neither acroread7 nor
> > reaplay will run due to complaining about fontconfig not being setup
> > properly.  Still futzing with this one.  Thankfully though, neither
> > app is still complaining about not being able to lookup a user id.
> 
> What's the exact error message you see? Do you have an up-to-date
> linux_base-8/linux-XFree86-libs installed?

I should have posted a follow up, but I didn't think it was relevant
to security.  Turned out all that was needed was to add a couple of
missing font paths to the font.conf file in the
/compat/linux/etc/fonts directory.  I now have both Acrobat Reader 7.0
and RealPlayer up and running.

I still have some pretty serious concerns with how I needed to fix the
uid lookup problem.  What I've got going is less than elegant, not to
mention a potential security issue.  I'll post a follow up on this
tomorrow as it's already gotten too late to be writing even this much
here.

Later on,
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