fontconfig-2.1.92 considered harmful

[Ruslan Ermilov]

On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 12:04:58PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-04-08 at 08:41, 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.
> 
> You're the only one that thinks 2.1.92 is worse that 2.1 :-).
> 
I don't.  It just causes me trouble.

> I thought
> 2.1.92 was going to be a silver bullet for most of the reported font
> problems.  I have heard reports of this problem, but every other user
> said the problem exists in 2.1 as well.  I've read this whole thread,
> and I'd like feedback on what das mentioned (i.e. upgrade to -CURRENT
> from today and make sure it's still broken).  Also, I'd like to see if
> what Dan Nelson suggested works (i.e. running fc-cache -v -f as root
> fixes it).
> 
OK, I will try that later today, and let you know.

> If it's still broken, what LANG are you using?
> 
I tried resetting the LANG, it's no cause.

> What fonts do you have installed?
> 
Just standard XFree86-4 install.

> Can you setenv FC_DEBUG to 1023, then send me the output
> after running xclock?
> 
Sure, I will.  Thanks!


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