[Slackbuilds-users] Problem building WINE 0.9.57 with fontforge

[Robby Workman]

Eric Hameleers wrote:
> Phillip Warner wrote:
> | WINE failed to build for me when I had fontforge-20080302 installed
> (via
> | the slackBuild).  I was building for i686 with no OpenGL.  Here is the
> | error I received:
> |
> | Missing glyph for char 0e5b
> | ../tools/fnt2fon system-874-96-16.fnt vgas874.fon
> | System 10 pts 96x96 dpi
> | fontforge -script ../fonts/genttf.ff marlett.sfd marlett.ttf
> | Copyright (c) 2000-2008 by George Williams.
> |  Executable based on sources from 21:54 GMT 2-Mar-2008.
> |   Library based on sources from 21:54 GMT 2-Mar-2008.
> |   make[1]: *** [marlett.ttf] Segmentation fault
> |   make[1]: *** Deleting file `marlett.ttf'
> |   make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/SBo/wine-0.9.57/fonts'
> |   make: *** [fonts] Error 2
> 
> I rebuilt my own Wine to check on that error - on a fresh install of
> Slackware 12.0 and fontforge-20080203 installed I get: [SNIPPED]
> 
> I have zero errors.
> Note that I use a fontforge from 3 feb 2008 while you have fonforge of
> ~ 2 march 2008.
> 
> I seriously doubt that the fontforge difference is the cause of your
> segfaults though.


I've just built wine-0.9.57 against fontforge-20070808 (last night) on
both 12.0 and -current, and I didn't get any errors.  I'll make a note
here to try and get latest fontforge tomorrow to see how things go
with them...

-RW