On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 11:14:11PM -0800, Tom Williams wrote: >Hi! I've just installed XFree86 4.5.0 RC1 on my Slackware 8 based Linux >system and so far it's running great! :) > >I tried running Gimp 2.2.3 and it complained about the fontconfig library >being too old. I had fontconfig 2.2.x installed before installing XFree86 >4.5.0 RC1 and it seems the XFree86 install installed a backlevel version of >fontconfig. > >Does XFree86 come with a backlevel version of fontconfig? Is there any >plan to update that to a more current version? XFree86 has a post-2.1 (+ some fixes) version, although it reports a much lower number due to the odd way that fontconfig's version morphed from 1.x to 2.x. While specific bug fixes could still be brought in, it is too late in the 4.5 release cycle to import a new version. Two things that I can do for 4.5 are: report the version correctly as 2.1; and allow the reported version to be overriden from the environment. I've found that at least some recent versions of Gimp appear to work so long as they think they have a new enough version of fontconfig. David _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
