wish(Tk) crashes without fontconfig, but fontconfig is not installed as a dependency

[Arjen Markus]

I have very recently had the same problem with pango - the library
complained that it could not match any fonts. After installing
fontconfig it all worked.

Regards,

Arjen

2013/8/24 nu774 <honeycomb77@gmail.com>:
> Hi,
> Without fontconfig, wish(Tk) seems to crash on the attempt to create
> widgets (which requires some fonts to render text) like the following:
>
> $ DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 wish
> % label .l -text "foo" <--- crash
>
> It seems that libfontconfig is already installed;
> but is there any reason not to install fontconfig package as a
> dependency of Tk?
>
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