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  2. JDK-7074386

Fall back to fontconfig file based on only OS major version number on Linux

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    • b08
    • generic, x86
    • linux, linux_redhat_6.1
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        with RHEL 5, Red Hat switched their version scheme from a single number (i.e. RHEL 4) to a <major>.<minor> (i.e. RHEL 5.6). This causes problems because FontConfiguration will expect a different fontconfig file for each update of RHEL.

        The solution is to first search for a fontconfig file based on the <major>.<minor> version number and if we don't find that, fall back to a file based on just the major file number. That way we can have a “default” fontconfig for the major release, and add an update specific file if there is a need to override the behavior.

        For example, on a Solaris 10 machine (Sun OS 5.10) , it currently would look for the following files in order :

        fontconfig.5.10.properties
        fontconfig.5.10.bfc
        fontconfig.properties
        fontconfig.bfc

        We want it to also look for a fontconfig file with a name based off of the major version alone:

        fontconfig.5.10.properties
        fontconfig.5.10.bfc
        fontconfig.5.properties
        fontconfig.5.bfc
        fontconfig.properties
        fontconfig.bfc

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