coredumps with fc-cache, fc-list

[Charles Wilson <cygwin@cwilson.fastmail.fm>]

While trying to debug the problem with my new build of rxvt-unicode, I 
find that I am getting a segfault way down deep in libfreetype. I 
rebuilt libfreetype with the new cygport, so I could get those handy 
debug symbols, and spent some time trudging thru that.

Then, since libfreetype is actually called by libfontconfig, and not 
directly by rxvt-unicode, I decided to download the -src package and 
rebuild THAT, too -- again, so I could have debug symbols for a few of 
my intervening stack frames.

The (re)build of fontconfig-2.8.0-2 went fine, but when setup installed 
it, I got an error during postinstall. Setup.log.full says:

2012/08/28 01:38:48 running: C:\cygwin-1.7\bin\bash.exe --norc 
--noprofile "/etc/postinstall/fontconfig.sh"
/etc/postinstall/fontconfig.sh: line 2:  4164 Segmentation fault 
(core dumped) /usr/bin/fc-cache -r

Ick.  So, I reinstalled the "real" version...and I got the same message:

2012/08/28 01:53:01 running: C:\cygwin-1.7\bin\bash.exe --norc 
--noprofile "/etc/postinstall/fontconfig.sh"
/etc/postinstall/fontconfig.sh: line 2:  6856 Segmentation fault 
(core dumped) /usr/bin/fc-cache -r


Running 'fc-list : family' also coredumps (using the official 
fontconfig-2.8.0-2).

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I next ran 'fc-cache -fsv' as Adminstrator, and everything went 
swimmingly...until I got to the Windows dir:

...
/usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/urw/times: caching, new cache 
contents: 4 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/urw/zapfchan: caching, new cache 
contents: 1 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/urw/zapfding: caching, new cache 
contents: 1 fonts, 0 dirs
/cygdrive/c/Windows/Fonts: Segmentation fault (core dumped)

FWIW, I have 469 true type fonts in Windows/Fonts.  There are a mixture 
of fonts identified by Windows as "TrueType" and "OpenType" even tho 
they all end in .ttf.  Three of the font files have spaces in their names.
	/cygdrive/c/Windows/Fonts/Envy Code R Bold.ttf
	/cygdrive/c/Windows/Fonts/Envy Code R Italic.ttf
	/cygdrive/c/Windows/Fonts/Envy Code R.ttf
I tried removing those three offenders, just in case, and re-running 
fc-cache but it still dumped core.

Any ideas? I'm going to try, just for grins and giggles, installing a 
self-built version of fontconfig-2.10.$latest and see if that helps 
matters...but I won't be able to do so until Thursday at the earliest.
--
Chuck

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