Re: wxt terminal in windows hangs

[Allin C. <cot...@wf...>]

On Tue, 18 Jan 2011, Ethan Merritt wrote:

> 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.

I think it's cairo that matters. I'm using the same pango version
as I was when we saw problems in November 2009 (1.24.5) but have
updated from cairo 1.8.8 to 1.10.2.

Allin Cottrell