libharfbuzz0 1.7.6-1 update causing xwin-xdg-menu.exe to crash

Gilles Detillieux grdetil@scrc.umanitoba.ca
Tue May 15 15:01:00 GMT 2018


On 05/14/2018 04:43 PM, Jon Turney wrote:
> On 14/05/2018 18:05, Gilles Detillieux wrote:
>> Thanks, Jon. The local.conf blacklist rule worked like a charm!
>>
>> It's odd that the fontconfig packages appear not to have been built 
>> with the latest stable gcc release, but so long as it's just this one 
>
> I don't know if that's the case or not.  More things than just the 
> compiler can effect the resulting binary.
>
>> (unneeded) font that's causing the headaches I'll just keep 
>> blacklisting it on our systems.
>
> Yaakov has rebuilt and uploaded the fontconfig 2.12.6-2, which doesn't 
> seem to suffer from this problem in my testing.

Awesome. Upgrading to the new libfontconfig packages did indeed fix the 
problem. Thanks, Yaakov & Jon!

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Gilles R. Detillieux              E-mail: <grdetil@scrc.umanitoba.ca>
Spinal Cord Research Centre       WWW:    http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/
Dept. of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences,
Univ. of Manitoba  Winnipeg, MB  R3E 0J9  (Canada)


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