Re: testing 2.13.6 darwin, mingw

[Graham Percival]

On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 01:20:00AM +0200, Christian Hitz wrote:
> Am 09.10.2009 um 21:37 schrieb Graham Percival:
>> On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 09:10:20PM +0200, Christian Hitz wrote:
>> Interesting.  What happens if you try 2.12.3 ?  That was created
>> with current GUB, but (obviously) 2.12 code.
>>
>> If that succeeds, then we know[1] that the problem is in the main
>> source code; if that fails, then we know[1] that the problem is in
>> GUB.
>
> I tested both 2.12.2 and 2.12.3 on darwin-x86 10.5 and 10.6.
>
> 2.12.2 works on both platforms, 2.12.3 hangs on creating the fonts cache
> on both systems. It works if 2.12.2 has created the cache before.

Interesting!  I suspect that Patrick hasn't been clearing out the
font cache before testing each version.  I wonder how far back the
problem goes?

As far as I know, neither Jan nor I have handy access to an OSX
box any more.  So we're kind-of relying on other people to send
patches.

Cheers,
- Graham