[tex-live] linking with fontconfig (xetex and xdvipdfmx)

Karl Berry karl at freefriends.org
Wed Oct 4 01:24:39 CEST 2006


Hi Jonathan,

    I therefore suggest that xetex and xdvipdfmx should *not* use a  
    static fontconfig library

Ok, given your experiments, that seems inevitable.  Thanks for all the
careful testing, of course.

So here is my next question: what version of fontconfig should we build
the TL binaries with, to maximize the chance of it working on users'
systems?

For example, tug.org has only libfontconfig.so.1[.0.4].  It is a
supported red hat enterprise release, fully patched, so it's not just a
matter of being out of date.  But I surmise that linking the binary
against FC1 might make things fail when the user only has FC2, given the
major version change.  Or did they actually manage to keep things
backward compatible?

And I would surmise that linking against FC2 will fail on machines with
only FC1 installed.

Wdyt?

Thanks,
karl


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