Re: wxt terminal in windows hangs

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Tuesday, January 18, 2011 11:39:23 am Allin Cottrell wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jan 2011, sfeam (Ethan Merritt) wrote:
> 
> > If the bug [in font-handling in the win32 backend to cairo] has
> > been fixed in some more recent cairo version, the test on WIN32
> > and cairo versioning in .../src/wxterminal/gp_cairo.c can be
> > modified appropriately.
> 
> I've now tried building gnuplot (CVS) with the special switch on
> WIN32 disabled, and running it with cairo 1.10.2. I'm not seeing
> the problem of missing font-pixels that we observed back in
> November 2009. I haven't tried a rigorous comparison against
> freetype/fontconfig at this point, but first impression is that
> maybe we don't need the work-around with current cairo.
> 
> Maybe bracket the special code with
> 
> #if CAIRO_VERSION_MAJOR < 2 && CAIRO_VERSION_MINOR < 10

OK.  But is it the cairo version or the pango version that matters?
The code in question seems to be calling into the pango library.

	Ethan

> 
> or similar?  (At least as an experiment for CVS users.)
> 
> Allin Cottrell