Fontconfig - Nov 2005 - Re: [XFree86] fontconfig and xft2-- where is release 2.1.1?

Around 8 o''clock on Feb 28, James D Strandboge wrote:
> When using mozilla (1.2.1) with xft (2.1) enabled, loading a binary
> files crashes mozilla (or any mozilla based browser like galeon).  If
> xft2 is disabled, mozilla does not crash.  Eg:
Hmm.  "works for me".  In any case, the bug is likely in mozilla or
Xft2,
not fontconfig as fontconfig isn''t involved in any page-specific stuff.
> I am not sure how to debug fontconfig other than the strace given in the
> debian bug report, but would be happy to try different things.
You might run mozilla under the debugger and generate a stack trace; that 
can be a bit tricky because of the weird shell scripts used to start the 
browser which you''ll have to untangle a bit.

-keith

On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 02:46, Keith Packard wrote:
> Around 0 o''clock on Feb 28, James D Strandboge wrote:
> 
> > I noticed that fontconfig/xft2 release 2.1.1 is/will be in XFree86
> > 4.3.0.
> 
> I''m currently putting together a fontconfig 2.2 release and
I''ll package up
> Xrender, Xft1 and Xft2 along with it using (approximately) the bits in
> XFree86 4.3.
> 
That''s great, and I just discovered the fontconfig archives.  You asked
for bugs that people hoped would be fixed.  I found what I think is a
fontconfig/xft2 bug that I didn''t see in the archive.

When using mozilla (1.2.1) with xft (2.1) enabled, loading a binary
files crashes mozilla (or any mozilla based browser like galeon).  If
xft2 is disabled, mozilla does not crash.  Eg:

http://www.mit.edu/afs/athena/user/d/a/daveg/Src/ATHENA/third/gnome-system-monitor/po/am.gmo

See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=182850 for more
information.  I am not sure how to debug fontconfig other than the
strace given in the debian bug report, but would be happy to try
different things.

Jamie

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Around 16 o''clock on Mar 21, Albert Chin wrote:
> Any chance of the prereleases at http://fontconfig.org/release/
> including Xrender, Xft1, and Xft2 as well?
Hmm.  That''s complicated by the isolation of the X related libraries in
XFree86 CVS to which I have no direct access.  Kinda makes it hard to 
create a release.

My eventual hope is that each library will live in it''s own package as 
they really are all separate.  Perhaps in the near future this will be 
possible.

-keith

On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 14:27, James Strandboge wrote:
> fixes this issue.  I am using xfree86 4.2.1 (with patched libXrender
> from fcpackage), 
This was vague.  I grabbed fcpackage from fontconfig.org, patched and
compiled Xrender from fcpackage, then dropped the new libXrender.so.1.1
into /usr/X11R6/lib.

Jamie

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On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 03:19:35PM -0800, Keith Packard
wrote:
> 
> Around 16 o''clock on Mar 21, Albert Chin wrote:
> 
> > Any chance of the prereleases at http://fontconfig.org/release/
> > including Xrender, Xft1, and Xft2 as well?
> 
> Hmm.  That''s complicated by the isolation of the X related
libraries in
> XFree86 CVS to which I have no direct access.  Kinda makes it hard to 
> create a release.
> 
> My eventual hope is that each library will live in it''s own
package as
> they really are all separate.  Perhaps in the near future this will be 
> possible.
Ok, fine. It''s easy enough to extract Xft and Xrender from the 4.3
sources.

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On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 08:21:03AM -0500, James D Strandboge
wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 02:46, Keith Packard wrote:
> > Around 0 o''clock on Feb 28, James D Strandboge wrote:
> > 
> > > I noticed that fontconfig/xft2 release 2.1.1 is/will be in
XFree86
> > > 4.3.0.
> > 
> > I''m currently putting together a fontconfig 2.2 release and
I''ll package up
> > Xrender, Xft1 and Xft2 along with it using (approximately) the bits in
> > XFree86 4.3.
Any chance of the prereleases at http://fontconfig.org/release/
including Xrender, Xft1, and Xft2 as well?

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On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 10:07, James D Strandboge wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 14:51, Keith Packard wrote:
> > Around 8 o''clock on Feb 28, James D Strandboge wrote:
> > 
> > > When using mozilla (1.2.1) with xft (2.1) enabled, loading a
binary
> > > files crashes mozilla (or any mozilla based browser like galeon).
If
> > > xft2 is disabled, mozilla does not crash.  Eg:
> > 
> > Hmm.  "works for me".  In any case, the bug is likely in
mozilla or Xft2,
> > not fontconfig as fontconfig isn''t involved in any
page-specific stuff.
> > 
> Well, like I said, if I disable xft it works-- so I don''t think it
is
> freetype either-- but I guess could be how mozilla deals with xft2.
Keith''s Xrender patch listed on:

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=173204

fixes this issue.  I am using xfree86 4.2.1 (with patched libXrender
from fcpackage), freetype 2.1.3, xft 2.1, fontconfig 2.1, glibc 2.2.5,
and mozilla 1.2.1 (all built on debian woody).

Is that Xrender code going to be in XFree86 4.3?

Jamie

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On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 14:51, Keith Packard wrote:
> Around 8 o''clock on Feb 28, James D Strandboge wrote:
> 
> > When using mozilla (1.2.1) with xft (2.1) enabled, loading a binary
> > files crashes mozilla (or any mozilla based browser like galeon).  If
> > xft2 is disabled, mozilla does not crash.  Eg:
> 
> Hmm.  "works for me".  In any case, the bug is likely in mozilla
or Xft2,
> not fontconfig as fontconfig isn''t involved in any page-specific
stuff.
> 
Well, like I said, if I disable xft it works-- so I don''t think it is
freetype either-- but I guess could be how mozilla deals with xft2.

How hard is it to get the xft2 libraries out of xfree86 4.3 like you did
in previous versions of fcpackage?
> > I am not sure how to debug fontconfig other than the strace given in
the
> > debian bug report, but would be happy to try different things.
> 
> You might run mozilla under the debugger and generate a stack trace; that 
> can be a bit tricky because of the weird shell scripts used to start the 
> browser which you''ll have to untangle a bit.
Haven''t had time to try this yet.

Jamie

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Around 14 o''clock on Mar 18, James Strandboge wrote:
> Is that Xrender code going to be in XFree86 4.3?
Yes.  XFree86 4.3 contains an up-to-date version of Xrender including all 
known fixes.

-keith