I tried to build and use the 2.4 branch today, and things generally seem to work fine for me. Here is one small patch which I needed, otherwise Pango would segfault. Index: src/fcpat.c =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/fontconfig/fontconfig/src/fcpat.c,v retrieving revision 1.27.2.6 diff -u -r1.27.2.6 fcpat.c --- src/fcpat.c 27 Aug 2005 02:34:24 -0000 1.27.2.6 +++ src/fcpat.c 1 Sep 2005 16:49:03 -0000 @@ -792,7 +792,7 @@ for (i = 0; i < p->num; i++) { h = (((h << 1) | (h >> 31)) ^ - FcStringHash ((const FcChar8 *) ((FcPatternEltU(p->elts)+i)->object)) ^ + FcStringHash (FcObjectPtrU((FcPatternEltU(p->elts)+i)->object)) ^ FcValueListHash ((FcPatternEltU(p->elts)+i)->values)); } return h; Very nice to see 600K of fontconfig vanish from the massif chart... Regards, Matthias