Fontconfig - Nov 2005 - what''s up with linux fonts lately?

Quoting synaptical <synaptical@linuxquestions.net>:
> here''s what i came up with, does anything seem awry? the
extra/duplicate
> files in /usr/local/lib don''t seem to be an issue, b/c when i move
those
> libfontconfig files and the /usr/local/lib/freetype directory and restart
> X, i get the same results. thx.
Ah, but you should also run ''ldconfig'' between the library
moves. See if
that changes anything. Also, see what you have in /etc/ld.so.conf.

-- 
Ciprian Popovici

here''s what i came up with, does anything seem awry? the
extra/duplicate files in /usr/local/lib don''t seem to be an issue, b/c
when i move those libfontconfig files and the /usr/local/lib/freetype directory
and restart X, i get the same results. thx.

[1] sero:~ $ locate libfontconfig
/usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1
/usr/lib/libfontconfig.a
/usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1.0.4
/usr/lib/libfontconfig.la
/usr/lib/libfontconfig.so
/usr/local/lib/libfontconfig.so.1
/usr/local/lib/libfontconfig.a
/usr/local/lib/libfontconfig.so.1.0.4
/usr/local/lib/libfontconfig.la
/usr/local/lib/libfontconfig.so

[2] sero:~ $ locate libfreetype
/usr/lib/libfreetype.la
/usr/lib/libfreetype.so
/usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6.3.5
/usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6
/usr/lib/libfreetype.a
/usr/local/lib/freetype/libfreetype.la
/usr/local/lib/freetype/libfreetype.so
/usr/local/lib/freetype/libfreetype.so.6.3.7
/usr/local/lib/freetype/libfreetype.so.6
/usr/local/lib/freetype/libfreetype.a

[3] sero:~ $ locate libXft
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXft.so.1.1.sus
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXft.so.1
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXft.so.2
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXft.so.2.1.2
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXft.so


--- Ciprian Popovici <ciprian@zuavra.net> wrote:

Try doing a find over all the filesystem. Look for things like this:

find / -name libfontconfig*.so* \
-or -name libfreetype*.so* \
-or -name libXft*.so*

Should find something along these lines:

/opt/freetype2/lib/libfreetype.so.6.3.5
/opt/freetype2/lib/libfreetype.so.6
/opt/freetype2/lib/libfreetype.so
/opt/xft/lib/libXft.so.2.1.1
/opt/xft/lib/libXft.so.2
/opt/xft/lib/libXft.so
/opt/fontconfig/lib/libfontconfig.so.1.0.4
/opt/fontconfig/lib/libfontconfig.so.1
/opt/fontconfig/lib/libfontconfig.so

If you find more than this you may have a problem. Disregard libXft.so.1
which comes with X, that''s OK. OpenOffice also comes with its own
libfreetype.so.6, I usually preload my own in the swriter script. Anyway,
get back to us with anything suspicious.

-- 
Ciprian Popovici

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