Hello, I'm getting a curious error from the fontconfig that's installed on my RH9 box (fully updated right now). A previous posting to this list was similar, and was getting errors like this one: gnome-terminal: relocation error: /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1: undefined symbol: FT_Get_Next_Char Keith Packard had this to say on the subject: >Around 9 o'clock on Mar 28, "Maisenhelder, Joel" wrote: >> And thus upgraded fonconfig to 2.1. All I get now are fc-cache: relocation >> error: /usr/local/lib/libfontconfig.so.1: undefined symbol: >> FT_Get_Next_Char >That means the version of FreeType you have installed is not the same as >the version used to build fontconfig. >> Or if I remove the dirs it has trouble with I get. No fonts found. What is >> going on? >That's a known bug with version 2.1 of fontconfig which is fixed by >running 'fc-cache -f'. That should be fixed in 2.1.92, but you'll have to >fix your FreeType version before you can run that. >-keith Now, I'm getting the same messages with the freetype and fontconfig that are installed with my distro, nothing is out of place and I've verified that the packages are `as installed'. The only thing that is different from a normal RH9 distro is that I have a few extra fonts installed in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local. I tried recompiling fontconfig (from the RH source rpm) on the system, but the recompiled fontconfig libraries gave the same errors. fontconfig version is 2.1-9 (redhat) though I'm not exactly sure which version this translates to. Typically, I'm not quite sure at which point the error made itself apparent. It wasn't when I installed ltsp on the machine recently. It mainly seems to have occurred since I tried running type1inst in directories that contained some new fonts, but I think it may have been waiting inthe wings as I don't see how that can have done anything to upset the system. Any ideas? This is causing us some trouble as it's our main office server. regards, Seb James
