Re: cannot build lilypond 2.6.3 on powerpc

[Thomas Bushnell BSG]

Han-Wen Nienhuys <address@hidden> writes:

> Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
>> Han-Wen Nienhuys <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> Hrmmph. Is this still an mftrace problem (does mftrace cmr10
>>> produce a .pfa which looks good in fontforge?)
>> Alas, no.  I get no glyphs, and the output of mftrace is as follows.
>> BTW, there is presumably a missing "\n" on one of these printfs.
>>
>
> The problem is the gf2pbm program included in mftrace. Can you compile 
> gf2pbm.c from mftrace for yourself (using WORDS_BIGENDIAN in config.h 
> for ppc), and check whether that works. Usage:
>
>   mf-nowin cmr10
>   gf2pbm -n 65 cmr10.2602gf
>
> produces 65.pbm containing the glyph A.


Ah, I have found the problem.  The Debian package builds gf2pbm with
optimization on (-O2).  gf2pbm misbehaves when compiled with
optimization, and works fine when compiled without.

This is almost certainly not a compiler bug, of course, it's much more
likely a problem inside gf2pbm.


Thomas