On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Seb James wrote: > 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'. It's worth noting that I've scanned through libfreetype.so and the symbol FT_Get_Next_Char is defined in there, so the code _is_ on the system. > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Fontconfig mailing list > Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://fontconfig.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig > -- 64 South View Road, Sheffield S7 1DD. tel: 0114 281 4114
