[Xquartz-dev] Leopard X11 2.3.2

Jeremy Huddleston jeremyhu at berkeley.edu
Sat Jan 3 11:12:42 PST 2009


Are you sure about rc4?  I haven't touched fontconfig since the  
betas.  How did that file get nuked?  I hope it's not a sign of FS  
corruption =(

I'm testing the 2.3.2.1 package now.. expect a release in the next  
hour or so.

--Jeremy

On Jan 3, 2009, at 11:04, Merle Reinhart wrote:

> The problem file/directory wasn't there in rc4 (I didn't get around  
> to testing with rc5).  So at least rc4 was what you expected (/usr/ 
> X11/lib/X11/fontconfig).
>
> Thanks for the clarification on which directory is the correct one!
>
> Merle
>
>
> On Jan 3, 2009, at 1:56 PM, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
>
>> Why oh why is there always something found right after the release =(
>>
>> That bug has been there since before 2.3.2_rc1 it seems, but nobody  
>> noticed it.  The file should be /usr/X11/lib/X11/fontconfig , but  
>> for some reason the file that had my fontconfig configure arguments  
>> got nuked =(
>>
>> I'm rebuilding fontconfig now with the correct /usr/X11/lib/X11/ 
>> fontconfig directory usage and will release a 2.3.2.1 with the  
>> fixed fontconfig.
>>
>>
>> On Jan 3, 2009, at 10:07, Merle Reinhart wrote:
>>
>>> On top of that, /usr/X11/etc/fonts/fonts.conf doesn't look right  
>>> as it contains a non-existent directory and only points at /usr/ 
>>> X11R6 (which works for now due to the symlink).
>>>
>>> Agreed this constant changing around of where the various  
>>> configuration files reside is a real pain.
>>>
>>> Merle
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jan 3, 2009, at 12:59 PM, Martin Costabel wrote:
>>>
>>>> Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
>>>>> I'm proud to announce the release of version 2.3.2 of X11 for  
>>>>> Leopard.  It's been 3.5 months since our last release, and I  
>>>>> think it's been well worth the wait.  This is by far the largest  
>>>>> set of bug fixes and updates since 2.2.0!
>>>> []
>>>>> Changes since 2.3.2_rc5:
>>>>> Honor system key repeat rate
>>>>> Got rid of some debug spew about bad modifier keycodes
>>>>> Fixed a possible deadlock / startup race condition
>>>>> xterm 238 to address CVE-2008-2383
>>>>
>>>> Another change (maybe already between rc4 and rc5) seems to be  
>>>> that fonts.conf has migrated to yet another place, namely to /usr/ 
>>>> X11/etc/fonts/. This will trip up those programs that have just  
>>>> learned that it migrated from /usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/ to /usr/X11/ 
>>>> lib/X11/fontconfig/. Some questions:
>>>>
>>>> Why this competition between /usr/X11/etc/fonts/ and /usr/X11/lib/ 
>>>> X11/fontconfig/? Both come with conf.avail and conf.d directories.
>>>>
>>>> Is the directory structure used by fontconfig documented  
>>>> somewhere? man fonts-conf still talks about /etc/fonts.conf,  
>>>> which has disappeared years ago. I haven't found man pages  
>>>> talking about conf.avail/ and conf.d/.
>>>>
>>>> Is this going to settle down?
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> Martin
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> Xquartz-dev mailing list
>>>> Xquartz-dev at lists.macosforge.org
>>>> http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/xquartz-dev
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Xquartz-dev mailing list
>>> Xquartz-dev at lists.macosforge.org
>>> http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/xquartz-dev
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Xquartz-dev mailing list
>> Xquartz-dev at lists.macosforge.org
>> http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/xquartz-dev
>
> _______________________________________________
> Xquartz-dev mailing list
> Xquartz-dev at lists.macosforge.org
> http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/xquartz-dev



More information about the Xquartz-dev mailing list