Re: Running under Snow Leopard

[Graham Percival]

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 03:46:00PM -0700, Patrick McCarty wrote:
> On 2009-10-28, Patrick McCarty wrote:
> > On 2009-10-28, Graham Percival wrote:
> > > Didn't we find that the 2.12.3 pre-release failed as well?  If I'm
> > > remembering correctly, then the problem would either be in GUB3 or
> > > in whatever patches were backported.
> > 
> > Would it be possible to build an installer from the release/2.12.2
> > commit in stable/2.12?

Hmm.  I'm not optimistic, especially since Jan seems to be away
this week.

> > If that installer also hangs, then it's likely a GUB problem.
> 
> Maybe we could try bumping Freetype and Fontconfig to the latest
> releases?  IIRC, GUB is using an old version of Freetype.

This is likely to cause other problems, but sure, I'm willing to
try this.  I'll cut a 2.12.3 test with the latest
freetype+fontconfig tomorrow.

Cheers,
- Graham