[Pkg-fonts-devel] Should we comaintain fontforge?

Kęstutis Biliūnas kebil at kaunas.init.lt
Mon Apr 3 07:31:19 UTC 2006


Sk, 2006 04 02 19:28 +0200, Ralf Stubner rašė:
> ,----[ George Williams ]
> |  On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 06:38, Ralf Stubner wrote:
> | > Thanks, I will give the patch a try. I am working on a Debian system
> | > where I typically use the source packages provided by Debian, drop in a
> | > newer fontforge tar ball and compile the thing. AFAICT this also
> | > includes compiling libuninameslist, but it seems to be used as a static
> | > library. Is there any way to tell if this static linking works? Other
> | > libraries are linked dynamically.
> | um, usually libuninameslist is dlopened
> | It is possible to link it statically (at least it's supposed to be, I'm
> | not sure I've tested it), but you would have to add the appropriate
> | #define manually somewhere... my configure script doesn't do it.
> | 
> | That said, you can tell if ff has found libuninameslist by
> |         $ fontforge -new
> |         let the cursor hover over the (blank) "A" glyph
> |         You should get a tool tips window
> |            "65 0x41 U+0041 "A" LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A"
> |                 means you've got libuninameslist.
> |            "65 0x41 U+0041 "A"[ Basic Latin]"
> |                 means you don't

At present I see "Basic Latin". Apparently, I will have to link it
dynamically.

Thanks for the info.
-- 
Kęstutis Biliūnas <kebil at kaunas.init.lt>
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