"... was committed to freetype in January and will form the next release (2.4.12)".
------------------------------ On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 18:54 GMT Simon Urbanek wrote: >On Mar 30, 2013, at 9:24 AM, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: > >> 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. >> > >Which versions are affected? R binary for OS X uses freetype 2.4.11 (and cairo >1.12.14) so I just need to know if there is an action item. > >Thanks, >SImon > > > >> --- 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-de...@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-de...@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >> >> > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
