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Re: [ft-devel] Third Release candidate for FT 2.2 available
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Steve Langasek |
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Re: [ft-devel] Third Release candidate for FT 2.2 available |
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Sun, 5 Mar 2006 23:26:52 -0800 |
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Hi David,
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 11:20:31AM +0100, david turner wrote:
> I finally fixed the last problems that prevented GNUstep applications
> from working properly in Sarge. Everything now works perfectly on
> this distribution. There are still two ways to get the package:
> - a pre-autoconf-ed version, ready to be built, is available at
> http://turnerdavid.neuf.fr/free/freetype-2.2rc3.tar.bz2
> - otherwise, use the CVS server:
> cvs -z3 -d
> :pserver:address@hidden:/sources/freetype co -r
> VER-2-2-0-RC3 freetype2
> cd freetype2
> sh autogen.sh
> This version works perfectly in Debian Sarge, and couldn't find any
> problem it introduced.
> The "light" hinting mode works extremely well too and will please any
> Mac OS X fan with
> "better-shapes-though-blurrier" text :-)
> I'll try to install it on other "old" distributions, but again, I'd
> appreciate if some volunteers
> would be ready to give a hand.
Well, mailing list delivery is still very spotty for me, but I saw there was
an RC4 tag so I tried that instead.
Anyway, results so far:
- most of the "rogue" applications in Debian etch (i.e., versions built
against freetype 2.1.10) appear to work ok with 2.2rc4; this includes
xpdf-reader, evince (uses poppler), and fontconfig-using applications.
- gimp segfaults in pango_fc_font_create_metrics_for_context(); this version
of pango is built against freetype 2.1.10, but it's pango 1.10.3 and that
was reported to be new enough that it no longer uses the freetype internal
APIs?
- I'm told sdl-ttf from testing/unstable breaks down, either with a font
error or a segfault. I haven't confirmed this myself yet, but given that
this is still one of the "rogue" libraries, I suppose it's nothing to
worry about; I haven't checked the build of sdl-ttf from sarge yet, but
I'm hopeful it will work since it was built against 2.1.7.
- gnustep-back from sarge (i.e., built against freetype 2.1.7) fails
stupendously with 2.2rc4, spitting out the following error repeatedly:
2006-03-05 23:14:17.000 ViewPDF[31022] Error when loading
'/usr/lib/GNUstep/System/Library/Fonts/VeraSans.nfont/../../../../../../../usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera/Vera.ttf'
(00000006)
This is when calling FT_New_Face(). I haven't tried to debug this yet
because setting gnustep up to run under gdb is painful; I'll probably take
a look at gimp/pango first instead.
If you or anyone else has specific suggestions for testing/debugging, I
would welcome them.
Cheers,
--
Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world.
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