GNU bug report logs - #41177
Fontconfig issues in Java applications that use fonts

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Jonathan Frederickson <jonathan <at> terracrypt.net>

Date: Sun, 10 May 2020 15:56:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Leo Prikler <leo.prikler <at> student.tugraz.at>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #17 received at 41177 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Björn Höfling <bjoern.hoefling <at> bjoernhoefling.de>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Fabien SK <fabsk <at> free.fr>, 41177 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#41177: Fontconfig issues in Java applications that use fonts
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2021 00:23:09 +0100
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On Tue, 2 Feb 2021 10:11:46 +0100
Björn Höfling <bjoern.hoefling <at> bjoernhoefling.de> wrote:

> On Wed, 06 Jan 2021 12:05:54 +0100
> Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> wrote:

> > Perhaps we should patch this ‘fontpath.c’, with ‘substitute*’, so
> > that it refers to libfontconfig.so by its absolute file name?  
> 
> We do that for icedtea (i.e. OpenJDK until version 8), but not for
> OpenJDK. I applied the same trick for OpenJDK 9 and will no longer get
> the NullPointerException.
> 
> Let me clean it up a bit and apply it to all later OpenJDKs as well
> (might be already done through inheritence, but let me check), then I
> will send out a patch.

Patch submitted as:

https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=46451

Björn
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