Re: Solution for fc-list locking up during build

[Andrew Gaffney <agaffney technaut darktalker net>]

This did in fact solve my problem. I'm sending this email from Mozilla 
1.3a under Garnome 0.21.2. The only problem I see so far is that all of 
the icons on the desktop and in Nautilus that were folders, are now that 
default blank paper icon. What's up with this?

Andrew Gaffney wrote:
>   For anyone having trouble with their build when its building the font 
> cache, I think I may have a solution that doesn't involve patching 
> anything.
>   In your source directory, edit misc/freetype/Makefile. Change the 
> freetype version from 2.1.3 to 2.1.4rc1. When it downloads this new 
> file, it will barf because the checksums don't match. Go back into this 
> directory and run 'md5sum freetype-2.1.4rc1.tar.bz2 >> checksums'. Then 
> run 'make install' from where you left off.
>   This fixed the problem for me. It took about 5 seconds to build the 
> font cache, where it got stuck in an infinite loop before. My build 
> hasn't finished quite yet, but it got farther than it did before.

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Andrew Gaffney