Calls to imagettftext cause fatal error in php

[Bryan Blackburn]

On Jul 7, 2008, at 2:56 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
> On Jul 7, 2008, at 15:08, Chris Janton wrote:
>
>> On 2008-07-07 , at 11:53 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>
>>>> The way I read things is that if one turns off quickdraw in  
>>>> freetype
>>>> then the "problem" will not occur.
>>>
>>> What are the implications of turning off QuickDraw in FreeType? What
>>> features will then not work?
>>
>> From what I can see? No more deprecated QuickDraw functions. The
>> following configuration settings seem relevant...
>>
>>  --with-old-mac-fonts    allow Mac resource-based fonts to be used
>
> That configure switch was added to the portfile at the request of a
> user:
>
> http://trac.macports.org/ticket/13045
>

Trying to build with fsspec/fsref/quickdraw disabled but old-mac-fonts  
enabled results in a couple of configure warnings:


configure: WARNING:
*** WARNING
     FreeType2 built without FSRef API cannot load
     data-fork fonts on MacOS, except of XXX.dfont.

configure: WARNING:
*** WARNING
     FSSpec/FSRef/QuickDraw/ATS options are explicitly given,
     thus it is recommended to replace src/base/ftmac.c by builds/mac/ 
ftmac.c.


So it seems like all either need to be on or off; not sure about that  
ftmac.c deal though.

Note that my 10.5 machine still shows some font files that won't load  
without old-mac-fonts enabled (look in /System/Library/Fonts and / 
Library/Fonts for 0 byte files).

In the end it seems like a choice would have to be made: the ability  
to load those fonts vs. avoiding the CoreFoundation fork() issue.

Bryan