LinuxQuestions.org - fix fontconfig 2.9.0 crashing secondlife viewers

Some of you might remember that I wrote about an incompatibility between those software packages when fontconfig was updated in -current. I am confident that the viewers will be adapted at some point, but in the meantime I have developed a patch. BAsically you need to rebuild the fontconfig package with a modified Slackbuild that applies the following patch prior to compilation:

Code:

--- fontconfig-2.9.0/src/fcmatch.c.orig        2012-03-10 07:24:46.000000000 +0100

+++ fontconfig-2.9.0/src/fcmatch.c        2012-10-03 18:57:48.468070619 +0200

@@ -847,7 +847,10 @@

    int                nsets;

 

    assert (p != NULL);

-    assert (result != NULL);

+    /* assert (result != NULL); */

+    FcResult DummyResult;

+    FcResult *resultp = &DummyResult;

+    FcResult **resultpp = (result == NULL) ? &resultp : &result ;

 

    if (!config)

    {

@@ -860,7 +863,7 @@

        sets[nsets++] = config->fonts[FcSetSystem];

    if (config->fonts[FcSetApplication])

        sets[nsets++] = config->fonts[FcSetApplication];

-    return FcFontSetSort (config, sets, nsets, p, trim, csp, result);

+    return FcFontSetSort (config, sets, nsets, p, trim, csp, *resultpp);

 }

 #define __fcmatch__

 #include "fcaliastail.h"

When using multilibs, it is the 32bit library that needs attention.