Bug 15118 – Add an einfo warning to fontconfig-2.1-r1

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Olivier Reisch (RETIRED) 2003-02-04 13:31:32 UTC]

It looks like fontconfig-2.1-r1 messes up fonts in KDE (they are all displayed
as blocks instead of characters). According to Gerk, the solution is to
recompile QT and kdelibs after having merged the new fontconfig. So maybe we
should add an einfo message at the end of the ebuild to tell people to recompile
those libraries if their fonts are whacked up. Not sure whether it has any
impact on gnome/gtk stuff.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge fontconfig-2.1-r1
2. launch kde
3. look at ugliness

Actual Results:  
KDE is fontless

Expected Results:  
KDE should show fonts

Portage 2.0.46-r9 (default-ppc-1.4, gcc-3.2.1, glibc-2.3.1-r2)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.20-ppc-crypto ppc
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirrors.sunsite.dk/gentoo/ http://distro.ibiblio.org/gentoo "
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config
/usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
USE="xv nls mitshm ppc gnome-libs berkdb slang readline tetex bonobo guile gpm
pam libwww perl python qt kde opengl cdr scanner X gtk gtk2 gnome gnome2 arts
motif tcltk imlib ncurses sdl gif jpeg tiff png avi mpeg quicktime esd oss dvd
oggvorbis encode xmms ssl socks5 tcpd mozilla spell truetype xml2 pdflib mysql
gdbm cups java -alsa crypt"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CHOST="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -mcpu=750 -mpowerpc-gfxopt -fsigned-char"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -mcpu=750 -mpowerpc-gfxopt -fsigned-char"
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
SYNC="cvs://[e-mail]:/home/cvsroot"
FEATURES="ccache digest noauto"

Note that this probably affects all platforms, not only ppc...

[Comment 1 Mark Guertin 2003-02-04 13:36:47 UTC]

This may also hold true for xft stuff as well.  They seem to want to go as a set, thoughts on this Az ?

[Comment 2 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2003-02-04 16:08:55 UTC]

I had no font problems with gtk+/gnome/mozilla after initial update
of fontconfig to -r1 ...  Did you restart X ?

[Comment 3 Olivier Reisch (RETIRED) 2003-02-05 05:16:22 UTC]

Well, Moz fonts looked real dirty, but i hadn't restarted X then. When i restarted X 
and saw KDE was still all b0rked I didn't try moz again and reverted to old fontconfig 
right away. So i wouldn't know about anything gtk... But KDE was broken for sure. 

[Comment 4 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2003-02-05 09:34:15 UTC]

Did talk to gerk .. we should prob PDEPEND on qt/xft if they are installed.
The only problem is that PDEPEND do not work as expected.  I have it that
no matter if required/latest version is already installed, it should still
remerge whatever after, but it does not :/

[Comment 5 Dan Armak (RETIRED) 2003-04-01 16:02:07 UTC]

I only learned of this bug today almost by accident... What's the current status, and what if 
anything has been done (since the comments here don't describe any action)? 

[Comment 6 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2003-04-01 16:42:56 UTC]

Outstanding portage bug, like many others.  Or maybe its me not understanding
what PDEPEND should do.

[Comment 7 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2003-04-20 03:42:08 UTC]

yeah, portage missing feature.

However, as of xfree-4.3.0-r2 (to be unmasked into stable in a few hours), xft is built right into xfree, so this might not be an issue any more. Doctomoe, have you tried that version yet?

[Comment 8 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) 2003-07-09 12:47:18 UTC]

closing with newer versions