Re: Running under Snow Leopard

[Patrick McCarty]

On 2009-10-28, Patrick McCarty wrote:
> On 2009-10-28, Graham Percival wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 03:28:45PM -0700, Patrick McCarty wrote:
> > > At this point, we can only speculate about the reasons why 2.12.2
> > > works but 2.13.6 does not, because 2.12.2 was built with GUB2 (no
> > > longer exists) and 2.13.6 was built with GUB3.
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> Oh, yeah.  :-)  I think you're right.
> 
> Would it be possible to build an installer from the release/2.12.2
> commit in stable/2.12?
> 
> 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.

-Patrick