On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Reimar Döffinger <reimar.doeffin...@gmx.de> wrote: > On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 01:07:11PM +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote: >> Am Montag, den 14.05.2012, 23:23 +0200 schrieb Alex Wilk: >> > mplayer: fcmatch.c:548: IA__FcFontMatch: Assertion `result != ((void *)0)' >> > failed. >> >> In line 1163 in file sub/font_load_ft.c of the mplayer2 source code the >> following code is called: >> >> fc_pattern = FcFontMatch(0, fc_pattern, 0); >> >> The third argument passed to FcFontMatch() is the *result pointer, which >> is 0 in this case. Newer versions of fontconfig seem to include an >> assertion that this may never be 0, so it fails. > > Really funny of them to add an assertion for an argument they don't even > have any documentation on. > At least nothing that I could find describes what the meaning of it is, > nor whether NULL is supposed to be valid or not...
A bit more digging reveals this commit: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/fontconfig/commit/src/fcmatch.c?id=a18ca17b6211f62fbd1d893811b94b8c83db4cc0 That commit references this bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40452 Now go figure... :-/ -- regards, Reinhard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
