On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 02:24:39PM +0200, Matthieu Herrb wrote: > On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 02:02:12PM +0200, David Coppa wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 11:52 AM, Matthieu Herrb <matth...@herrb.eu> wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 12:46:41PM +0200, David Coppa wrote: > > >> > > >> Hi all, > > >> > > >> Here's the update to FreeType 2.7 (a gzipped diff is also attached). > > >> > > >> The biggest change is that now Subpixel hinting, also known as > > >> ClearType hinting, is enabled by default. > > >> > > >> As usual, a ports bulk build is appreciated. > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'm not really sure that the bumping of the major revision of > > > libfontconfig, libXft and libXfont is needed or will help with out of > > > date packages. Can you explain ? > > > > We did this before. > > Yes, it's to avoid problems like the message below. > > > > Unfortunatly it will not avoid all of them. For now, after upgrading > xenocara, but with packages still linked to freetype.26 I get this > from firefox: > > firefox:/usr/X11R6/lib/libfreetype.so.26.0: > /usr/X11R6/lib/libfreetype.so.27.0 : WARNING: symbol(af_blue_strings) size > mismatch, relink your program > > For the extra major bumps to be useful in this situation, ld.so > would need to only load the revisions of the libs that the program was > linked against, and ignore the more recent versions But with dlopen() > which doesn't do versionning it won't be trivial. > > -- > Matthieu Herrb
That said, the update (with fontconfig/Xft/Xfont bumps) survived a rebuild of my standard set of packages (including firefox, chrome, libreoffice & xfce4). So ok matthieu@ -- Matthieu Herrb
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