[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#605871: Bug#605871: fontforge runs find / during the configure step

[Paul Wise]

On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 2:44 PM, Hideki Yamane wrote:

>  --with-freetype-src option should be used with relevant path like
>  "--with-freetype-src=/foobar". But anyway, freetype source file is
>  necessary to include to build with --with-freetype-bytecode option.
>
>  If not, configure script warns for it.
>> checking for valid freetype tree... missing ttobjs.h
>> Unable to find /usr/include/freetype2/freetype/src/truetype/ttobjs.h

Please file a bug against freetype asking for them to do either of these:

Ship the needed header/etc files somewhere.

Ship a freetype-source package containing the full source for freetype.

It sounds like fontforge embeds part of freetype if you do that, so
when this is done, you will need to add this to debian/control and
something in debian/rules to set the freetype:Version substvar.

Built-Using: freetype (= ${freetype:Version})

>  Q: Should we include freetype source with fontforge?
>     We can add it as multiple orig source as fontforge_0.0.20120101+git.orig-freetype-2.4.9.tar.xz
>     like I did for ttf-kochi package.

No, definitely not. Please fix ttf-kochi too, it shouldn't copy
freetype around either.

-- 
bye,
pabs

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