Re: Pango multilib issue

["Zhai, Edwin" <edwin.zhai@intel.com>]

On 04/27/2012 06:45 PM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-04-27 at 16:20 +0800, Zhai, Edwin wrote:
>> Any comments?
>> I'd like a agreement before any patch:)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Edwin
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 03:53:22PM +0800, Zhai, Edwin wrote:
>>> RP,
>>>
>>> I have found one common issues for multilib when system config file differ
>>> between multilibs.
>>>
>>> https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2356
>>> This bug caused by modules mechanism in pango:
>>>
>>> pango utils, pango-querymodules produce a system config file to indicate where
>>> to find the modules when 1st boot, like /usr/{lib64|lib}/pango/1.6.0/modules/
>>> for {x86-64|lib32}-pango respectively.
>>>
>>> When installing lib32-pango on sato-image-qemux86-64, lib32 version of
>>> pango-querymodules override x86-64 version and produce a system config file
>>> with path for lib32 version of modules. Then x86-64 matchbox-desktop failed to
>>> open these modules and loaded corrupted fonts.
>>>
>>> To resolve this conflict, one possible solution is put the config file and
>>> binary under different dir: $LIBDIR for config file, and
>>> /usr/{libexec|lib64exec} for config binary(or create different dir under
>>> /usr/bin/ for different multilib)
>>>
>>> Any comments for this?
>
> /libexec and /lib aren't really the correct locations for a
> configuration file like this.
>
> I think in the mutlilib cases I'd like to move the config file a
> directory deeper so /etc/pango/${baselib}/pango.modules in the mutliib
> cases. The standard system file would remain in its existing location.


This is okay. We should use /usr/bin/${baselib}/pango-querymodules as well.


>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>
>