FreeType crasher: how to recompile ?

Yann Corno yann+macports at daysofwonder.com
Thu Aug 21 01:24:18 PDT 2008


I confirm that I need to disable old Mac font support 
(--with-old-mac-fonts=no). I just tried with the option back "on", and 
it fails again.

Sorry for the bad news,

Yann

Ryan Schmidt a écrit :
> Did you find that disabling old Mac font support was really necessary to 
> resolve this issue? I was hoping old Mac font support could be retained.
> 
> 
> On Aug 21, 2008, at 02:21, Yann Corno wrote:
> 
>> Dear MacPorts people:
>>
>> Following up on this, I finally found the solution. Maybe I was not
>> recompiling properly FreeType, or maybe the little additional changes I
>> made in the configure.args options made it work. Anyway, it works, so I
>> am not going to touch it again ;-)
>>
>> Here is the procedure:
>>
>> * Uninstall Freetype:
>>
>> sudo port uninstall -f freetype     # The -f option will force the
>> un-install despite other packages dependencies
>>
>>
>> * Edit the portfile:
>>
>> sudo port edit freetype
>> # In the editor, change the configure.args option like this:
>> configure.args \
>>      --with-old-mac-fonts=no \
>>      --with-quickdraw-toolbox=no --with-quickdraw-carbon=no
>>
>>
>> * Save the portfile, then re-install Freetype:
>>
>> sudo port install freetype
>>
>>
>> If you have any comments, I'll be happy to hear them :-)
>>
>> Thanks for your attention,
>>
>> Yann
>>
>>


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