Perhaps that's too much details. There is (will be) a new freetype because of cairo's unanticipated usage (which R uses, among other cairo users). Most people should upgrade or request an upgrade eventually, when they are comfortable.
--- On Sat, 30/3/13, peter dalgaard <pda...@gmail.com> wrote: > Huh? > > This is utterly incomprehensible without reading the redhat > bugzilla, and even after reading, I'm not sure what the > issue is. Something with bold Chinese fonts in X11, but > maybe also affecting Latin fonts, ....? > > Please explain yourself. > > -pd > > On Mar 30, 2013, at 09:25 , Hin-Tak Leung wrote: > > > The problem was first seen with R/Sweave (#c0) then > reproduced directly with cairo (#c10) and was eventually > traced to freetype. The 5-part bug fix: > > 610ee58e07090ead529849b2a454bb6c503b4995 > > da11e5e7647b668dee46fd0418ea5ecbc33ae3b2 > > e1a2ac1900f2f16ec48fb4840a6b7965a8373c2b > > 869fb8c49ddf292d6daf4826172a308973d3e11f > > d56e544d653b09c657911629557ffc5277a503e3 > > was committed to freetype in January and will form the > next release (2.4.12). They were back ported to 2.4.11 > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=891457#c35 > > and the redhat people had further back-ported it to > 2.4.10 for fedora 18/19 (#c51). > > > > The freetype people had reproduced the problem with a > latin font, so this affects most people, unlike what the > initial report (#c0) suggests. > > > > Since freetype is part of X11, most unix/linux users > would be understandably nervous about breaking X (see #c45 > for screenshot of broken gnome terminal!) and should wait up > to a year before the new and not-yet-released 2.4.12 becomes > an official upgrade; or contact their favourite unix vendors > and/or Apple for upgrades. AFAIK, current up-to-date linux > distributions ships the rather older 2.4.10, with the > exception of fedora 18/19 (#c51). Mac OS X 10.5 ships > freetype 2.3.5 as part of X11; I haven't bother looking up > later Mac OS X's. > > > > The official R binaries for windows and mac OS X are > compiled against static libraries of cairo 1.10.2 (over 2 > years old), and cairo 1.11.2 and freetype 2.4.4 > respectively, and are firmly in the "do not work correctly" > category. > > > > The long and short of the story is that R/Sweave uses a > feature of cairo which wasn't implemented before cairo > 1.11.2 (#c13, Jan 2011), which in turn depends on a feature > of freetype that has been around since 2005 but did not > anticipate cairo's usage. It is commendable that the > freetype people did not refer to cairo's usage as "misuse" > but took the patience to address the problem, unlike some > group's style. > > > > It has been an interesting few months returning to > freetype after about 17 years, I think. > > > > Here is how to look up what version of freetype - > libfreetype.so.x.y.z for most unix platforms, and > /usr/X11/lib/libfreetype.x.y.z.dylib on Mac OS X: > > > > (excerpt from docs/VERSION.DLL) > > > > version > x.y.z date of release > > 2.4.11 > 6.10.0 Dec 2012 > > 2.4.10 > 6.9.0 June 2012 > > 2.4.9 > 6.8.1 March 2012 > > ... > > 2.4.4 > 6.6.2 Nov 2010 (official R mac > binaries) > > ... > > 2.3.5 > 6.3.16 July 2007 (Mac OS X 10.5) > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-devel@r-project.org > mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > -- > Peter Dalgaard, Professor, > Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School > Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark > Phone: (+45)38153501 > Email: pd....@cbs.dk > Priv: pda...@gmail.com > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
