[Xquartz-dev] Leopard X11 2.3.2
Merle Reinhart
merlereinhart at mac.com
Sat Jan 3 11:15:37 PST 2009
I just looked on my system at work which is 2.3.2_rc4. The file/
directory structure is fine (no /usr/X11/etc/...) and the fonts.conf
file in /usr/X11/lib/X11/fongconfig is what you were expecting (dated
Dec 17 when I installed rc4).
Merle
On Jan 3, 2009, at 2:12 PM, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
> 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
>>>>>
>>>>>
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