XFT crash in Ubuntu 14

Raymond Toy writes: Where is this happening in actual use? If it's your own code, you can work around with fc-name-parse-harder. If it's in XEmacs, we probably should make that change there. Specifically, it's known and there is code in lisp/fontconfig.el to deal with this, see defvar fc-name-parse-known-problem-attributes and defun fc-name-parse-harder. I don't understand the crash, as there is also code in src/font-mgr.c:Ffc_name_parse to detect NULL returns and signal. I wonder if your XEmacs is somehow out of date? I believe these changes were installed 2013-09-15 or soon after (ChangeLog date is 2013-09-10). I guess I was only running into this in my own code and in one place in font.el (where I changed fc-name-parse to fc-name-parse-harder). So I hesitated to put the parse-harder code into the advertised fc-name-parse function, because you end up with something that doesn't roundtrip. I like to preserve invariants. Steve _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta