Re: gtk+/tests/testtext Doesn't Run

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Eric Mader <mader jtcsv com> writes:

> At 04:32 PM 8/19/2002, Owen Taylor wrote:
> 
> >Eric Mader <mader jtcsv com> writes:
> > > While playing around w/ strace to see where the program was hanging, I
> > > noticed that if I let it run for about 7 minutes, it *does* come
> > > up... don't know what that means. Looking at the strace output, it
> > > looks like maybe it spends several seconds per font, which may explain
> > > why it takes so long. I've enclosed the strace log.
> > >
> > > Next I tried running fc-cache. This took about 7 minutes to run also,
> > > and now testtext comes right up. So, it looks like the problem has to
> > > do with missing font caches... What I don't understand is why this
> > > didn't happen on my RH 7.3 system. Could it be that the 7.3 installer
> > > runs fc-cache? (I assume that I have the same set of fonts on both
> > > systems since they were both installed using the 7.2 installation
> > > CDs..)
> >
> >Hmm, are you sure that you upgraded FreeType on the 7.2 machine?
> >This is exactly the difference I'd expect between a machine
> >with FT_Get_Next_Char() (added in 2.0.9) and one without
> >FT_Get_Next_Char(.) The one without FT_Get_Next_Char() would
> >take a really long time to compute the cached coverage information.
> >
> >Regards,
> >                                         Owen
> 
> Here's what rpm has to say:
> 
> [emader doramichan emader]$ rpm -q freetype
> freetype-2.1.2-6
> [emader doramichan emader]$ rpm -q --filesbypkg freetype
> freetype                  /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6
> freetype                  /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6.3.1
> freetype                  /usr/lib/libttf.so.2
> freetype                  /usr/lib/libttf.so.2.3.0
>      [the rest of the stuff is in /usr/share/doc and /usr/share/locale]
> [emader doramichan emader]$
> 
> Finally, here's what's in config.log:
> 
> [emader doramichan pango]$ grep FT_Get_First_Char config.log
> configure:8351: checking for FT_Get_First_Char
> ac_cv_func_FT_Get_First_Char=yes
> [emader doramichan pango]$

Ah, maybe you compiled fontconfig *before* you upgraded freetype
so it didn't know to use FT_Get_First_Char?

Regards,
                                        Owen