Bug 17450

Summary:	configure checks for freetype backend fail if FcFini not available
Product:	cairo	Reporter:	Benny Siegert <bsiegert>
Component:	freetype font backend	Assignee:	David Turner <david>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	cairo-bugs mailing list <cairo-bugs>
Severity:	blocker
Priority:	medium
Version:	1.6.4
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Attachments:	proposed patch

Description Benny Siegert 2008-09-05 05:15:43 UTC

Created attachment 18694 [details] [review]
proposed patch

I am trying to compile cairo 1.6.4 on MirOS BSD (an OpenBSD variant). The fontconfig included in the base system does not have the FcFini() function. As I gathered from searching the mailing list archives, this function is optional. However, on systems without FcFini(), the freetype backend is completely disabled.

From reading the source code, I do not think that FcFini is really essential, and any calls to it are protected by #ifdef HAVE_FCFINI anyway. Thus, I made a small patch for the configure script to make a missing FcFini non-fatal for the freetype font backend.

What's ironic is that this bug had already existed as bug 3951. It was fixed in 0.9.3.

Comment 1 Carl Worth 2008-09-05 10:03:02 UTC

Thanks for the reminder. We've already fixed this on the "master" branch of cairo, but I'll leave this bug open as a "blocker" until we make sure that this fix gets on the 1.6 branch in preparation for a 1.6.6 release.

-Carl

Comment 2 Chris Wilson 2008-09-28 12:21:08 UTC

When 1.8 has superseded 1.6 as the stable branch, so we can now close this bug.

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