Re: [Gimp-developer] List of dependencies (versions and configuration options) for GIMP on Windows

[Jehan Pagès <jehan marmottard gmail com>]

Hi,

On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Jehan Pagès <jehan marmottard gmail com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 1:51 AM, Michael Henning
> <drawoc darkrefraction com> wrote:
> > At the time I fixed this, Jernej's builds did not exhibit the problem
> > because they used an older version of fontconfig. I did not report
> > this upstream because it's a configuration issue, but now that I think
> > about it, the defaults should perhaps be changed on windows (or maybe
> > when cross compiling).
>
> Yes I am not sure if upstream or else, but definitely somethings
> should be done *somewhere*, otherwise we might have various new
> developers to the team (or the same ones, forgetting it happened
> already) scratching their head with this problem every 6 months. The
> simple fact that the last Windows build is broken even though you had
> this fixed from before this release is a sign there should be
> something in place for this to not happen again. :-)

Just for information, I have now opened a report upstream:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69836

Jehan