On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Seb James wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I''m getting a curious error from the fontconfig that''s
installed on my RH9
> box (fully updated right now).
>
> A previous posting to this list was similar, and was getting errors like
> this one:
>
> gnome-terminal: relocation error: /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1: undefined
> symbol: FT_Get_Next_Char
>
> Keith Packard had this to say on the subject:
>
> >Around 9 o''clock on Mar 28, "Maisenhelder, Joel"
wrote:
>
> >> And thus upgraded fonconfig to 2.1. All I get now are fc-cache:
> relocation
> >> error: /usr/local/lib/libfontconfig.so.1: undefined symbol:
> >> FT_Get_Next_Char
>
> >That means the version of FreeType you have installed is not the same
as
> >the version used to build fontconfig.
>
> >> Or if I remove the dirs it has trouble with I get. No fonts found.
What
> is
> >> going on?
>
> >That''s a known bug with version 2.1 of fontconfig which is
fixed by
> >running ''fc-cache -f''. That should be fixed in
2.1.92, but you''ll have
> to
> >fix your FreeType version before you can run that.
>
> >-keith
>
>
> Now, I''m getting the same messages with the freetype and
fontconfig that
> are installed with my distro, nothing is out of place and I''ve
verified
> that the packages are `as installed''.
It''s worth noting that I''ve scanned through libfreetype.so and
the symbol
FT_Get_Next_Char is defined in there, so the code _is_ on the system.
> The only thing that is different from a normal RH9 distro is that I have a
> few extra fonts installed in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local.
>
> I tried recompiling fontconfig (from the RH source rpm) on the system, but
> the recompiled fontconfig libraries gave the same errors.
>
> fontconfig version is 2.1-9 (redhat) though I''m not exactly sure
which
> version this translates to.
>
> Typically, I''m not quite sure at which point the error made itself
> apparent. It wasn''t when I installed ltsp on the machine recently.
It
> mainly seems to have occurred since I tried running type1inst in
> directories that contained some new fonts, but I think it may have been
> waiting inthe wings as I don''t see how that can have done anything
to
> upset the system.
>
> Any ideas? This is causing us some trouble as it''s our main office
> server.
>
> regards,
>
> Seb James
>
>
>
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