FreeType crasher: how to recompile ?

[Bryan Blackburn]

On Aug 20, 2008, at 2:38 PM, Yann Corno wrote:

> Hello everyone:
>
> I am suffering from a crasher recently introduced in FreeType (or so  
> it
> seems). After a wild goose chase from Apache to PHP to GD2 to  
> FreeType,
> it boils down to a crash because Apache2 uses fork() without a
> corresponding exec() and, upon calling PHP/GD/FreeType, the Carbon  
> call
> in FreeType causes Apache2 to crash. This is what is explained here:
>
> http://90kts.com/blog/2008/installing-gd-libraries-for-leopard-apache-php-525/#comment-126
>
> The next comment in the above link explains that FreeType should be
> recompiled with a couple of options off: with-quickdraw-carbon and
> with-quickdraw-toolbox
>
> My question is: how do I do this in MacPort?
>
> I tried to change the portfile like this:
>
> configure.args \
>     --with-old-mac-fonts \
>     --with-fsspec=no --with-fsref=no --with-quickdraw-toolbox=no
> --with-quickdraw-carbon=no
>

That should be working as you expect, but I believe you also need to  
remove --with-old-mac-fonts to fully get around the CoreFoundation  
issue.  There's also a ticket covering this issue:

<http://trac.macports.org/ticket/15909>

Bryan


> But it does not seem to make any difference. Heck, I am not even sure
> that these options carry through down to the compiler. Sorry, I am  
> such
> a MacPort newbee...
>
> Any advise on what I should do? Should I also rebuild gd2 and php5  
> after
> that?
>
> Thanks in advance for your insights,
>
> Yann
>
> PS: I am using Mac OS X 10.5.4 on a PowerPC G4 PowerBook machine, and
> updated to the latest MacPorts builds.