Re: [gnome-love] Compiling 2.15.4

["Elijah Newren" <newren gmail com>]

On 8/2/06, Magnus Therning <magnus therning org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 21:29:27 -0600, Elijah Newren wrote:
> >A quick google search only turns up a few results, but one irc log
> >containing that error seems to suggest a possible bug in freetype and
> >that downgrading should fix the problem for you.  You probably have a
> >newer version than me.  Might work, but I'm not really sure.
>
> Hmm, can't find the IRC log you mention, but I did find this[1] which
> suggests that using freetype2 internal objects isn't the way to go. Of
> course, I don't really know what I'm talking about, I'm just pattern
> matching...
>
> What version of freetype2 are you using?

I'm using 2.1.9 (version that comes with rhel4/centos4)

> Version 2.2.1 is in Debian Sid. There's no earlier version available in
> Testing.
>
> Another interesting thing is that GNOME 2.14 in Debian uses fontconfig
> version 2.3.2, while the moduleset for 2.15.90 uses 2.2.96. Any
> particular reason?

It was the most recent version available at
http://freedesktop.org/fontconfig/release/.  Now that you've pointed
out there are newer versions, I just did some searches and found
http://www.fontconfig.org/release/, which I'll use to replace the
download location for the script that generates the tarball
modulesets.  Thanks.  :)