Bug 54207 – firefox-0.9-r1 and moznoxft USE flag

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Selecter 2004-06-17 08:23:40 UTC]

USE="moznoxft" emerge mozilla-firefox still compiles firefox with xft support:

        linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xffffe000)
        libmozjs.so => /usr/lib/MozillaFirefox/libmozjs.so (0x4002e000)
        libxpcom.so => /usr/lib/MozillaFirefox/libxpcom.so (0x400aa000)
        libplds4.so => /usr/lib/MozillaFirefox/libplds4.so (0x40165000)
        libplc4.so => /usr/lib/MozillaFirefox/libplc4.so (0x40168000)
        libnspr4.so => /usr/lib/MozillaFirefox/libnspr4.so (0x4016d000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x4019e000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x401ef000)
        libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0x401f2000)
        libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0x40499000)
        libatk-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libatk-1.0.so.0 (0x40505000)
        libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 (0x4051e000)
        libpangoxft-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangoxft-1.0.so.0 (0x40532000)
        libpangox-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangox-1.0.so.0 (0x40538000)
        libpango-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0 (0x40543000)
        libgobject-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 (0x40575000)
        libgmodule-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0 (0x405aa000)
        libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0x405ae000)
        libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x40626000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x406e9000)
        libstdc++.so.5 => /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.3/libstdc++.so.5 (0x4070a000)
        libgcc_s.so.1 => /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.3/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x407bb000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x407c4000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
        libXrandr.so.2 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrandr.so.2 (0x408cc000)
        libXi.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXi.so.6 (0x408d1000)
        libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x408d9000)
        libXft.so.2 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXft.so.2 (0x408e6000)
        libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0x408f8000)
        libXrender.so.1 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender.so.1 (0x40960000)
        libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0x40968000)
        libXcursor.so.1 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXcursor.so.1 (0x4098f000)
        libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 (0x40998000)
        libexpat.so.0 => /usr/lib/libexpat.so.0 (0x409bb000)
        libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x409d9000)

The annoying part of this thing is firefox doesn't listen what Mr. /etc/fonts/fonts.conf says to do.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:





Portage 2.0.50-r8 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r0,
2.6.7-rc3-love2)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.7-rc3-love2 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.70GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.10
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref
/usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/
/usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs buildpkg"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/
ftp://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo
ftp://ftp6.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo
http://ftp.du.se/pub/os/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X aalib acpi alsa apache2 arts avi cdr crypt cups encode esd gdbm ggi gif
gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml imlib java jpeg kde ldap libg++ libwww linguas_ru mad
mikmod mmx motif mozilla moznoxft mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl pam
pdflib perl png ppds python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell sse ssl svga
tcltk tcpd tetex truetype x86 xml xml2 xmms xv zlib"

[Comment 1 ra 2004-06-20 06:54:10 UTC]

I'm having the problem where firefox no longer follows the font.conf files. Is there a work around?

All the fonts look blurry now.

[Comment 2 Selecter 2004-06-20 07:04:02 UTC]

Yeah I have this problem too.

[Comment 3 ra 2004-06-20 16:04:44 UTC]

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=176334

Looks like a bug with fonts.conf

[Comment 4 ra 2004-06-20 16:09:29 UTC]

OK, a further look and test suggest the problem is that firefox not uses the pixelsize part of fonts.cont instead of point size as before.

Setting the pixel size properly fixes the problem.

[Comment 5 Aron Griffis (RETIRED) 2004-11-13 16:09:24 UTC]

Just because your system has xft support that is linked in via a chain of libraries doesn't mean that firefox was built with xft support.  I build it regularly with and without xft support and it's definitely behaving differently...