fontconfig-2.1.92 considered harmful

[Ruslan Ermilov]

On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 03:25:29PM +0200, CARTER Anthony wrote:
> Originally (end of last week) there was a loop where the xft had a looping 
> dependency that caused an "out of swap space" bug appearing while compiling 
> Mesa (among others).
> 
> What version of Xft are you using?
> 
Like I said, I rebuilt everything from ports yesterday.
The latest, Xft-2.1_7.

> Maybe it is not related, but I am running latest XFree and KDE and Xclock and 
> fontconfig without any problems so far ;)
> 
The WM is not an issue here.

> On Tuesday 08 April 2003 15:18, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 02:46:39PM +0200, CARTER Anthony wrote:
> > > I had this bug, but now it is over...It has been fixed. Do a CVSUP and
> >
> > all
> >
> > > should now be ok.
> >
> > No.  This is with the latest port.  Where specifically it
> > was fixed?
> >
> > > On Tuesday 08 April 2003 14:41, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > > > I have been unlucky to try to do a major update of all
> > > > of my ports, including upgrading XFree86 to version 4.3,
> > > > on my 5.0-CURRENT notebook.
> > > >
> > > > The update went fine except things like xclock(1) now
> > > > angry and eat all system memory and are eventually get
> > > > killed due to the ``out of swap space'' bug ;-).
> > > >
> > > > I've tracked it down to the update of fontconfig port
> > > > to version 2.1.92.  Reverting to fontconfig-2.1_7 made
> > > > the symptoms go away.
> > > >
> > > > This was a standard install of XFree86-4, with the
> > > > xf86config(1) generated config file.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Cheers,

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