FreeType crasher: how to recompile ?

[Ryan Schmidt]

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
>
>
>> 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
>>
>> 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.