176347 - mozilla xft links with libXft.so.1

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: Layout: Text and Fonts, defect)

Description

[Andrew Dolgov]

I have noticed that Mozilla configured with --enable-xft links with libXft.so.1,
but apparently wants libXft.so.2 from fontconfig (it fails to start with
libXft.so.1 because XftLockFace symbol is not resolved). Maybe this is problem
of my system configuration (libXft.so points to libXft.so.1) but anyway I think
it is a Bad Thing (tm).

Comment 1

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

->blizzard

Comment 2

[Christopher Blizzard (:blizzard)]

[blizzard@dead blizzard]$ ldd /usr/lib/mozilla-1.2b/components/libgfx_gtk.so
|grep Xft
        libXft.so.2 => /usr/lib/libXft.so.2 (0x4050f000)

Looks fine here.  Something odd going on on your system, maybe?

Comment 3

[Andrew Dolgov]

Yep, libXft.so pointed to libXft.so.1 instead of so.2. Sorry.

Comment 4

[Moses Lei]

Maybe there ought to be a specific check that the library is in fact Xft2 (or
later) and not Xft1. Most people still have (either the old or new version of)
Xft1 along with Xft2 on their systems, and it's possible that libXft.so could be
linked to Xft1, but that's not what Mozilla needs.

Comment 5

[Yuying Long]

Mark as verified per above 2 comments.