Author: ken
Date: Mon May 11 20:13:53 2020
New Revision: 23105
Log:
fontforge-20200314
I have taken the liberty of assuming people use recommended deps.
Details in comments in the XML.
Modified:
trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
trunk/BOOK/packages.ent
trunk/BOOK/xsoft/other/fontforge.xml
Modified: trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml Mon May 11 19:30:32
2020 (r23104)
+++ trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml Mon May 11 20:13:53
2020 (r23105)
@@ -45,6 +45,10 @@
<para>May 11th, 2020</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
+ <para>[ken] - Update to fontforge-20200314 (security fixes). Fixes
+ <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;13488">#13488</ulink>.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
<para>[renodr] - Update to c-ares-1.16.1. Fixes
<ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;13522">#13522</ulink>.</para>
</listitem>
Modified: trunk/BOOK/packages.ent
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/packages.ent Mon May 11 19:30:32 2020 (r23104)
+++ trunk/BOOK/packages.ent Mon May 11 20:13:53 2020 (r23105)
@@ -915,7 +915,7 @@
<!ENTITY ekiga-version "4.0.1">
<!ENTITY feh-version "3.4">
<!--<!ENTITY fontforge-date "2015-02-28">-->
-<!ENTITY fontforge-version "20170731">
+<!ENTITY fontforge-version "20200314">
<!ENTITY gparted-version "1.1.0">
<!ENTITY gimp-version "2.10.18">
<!ENTITY hexchat-version "2.14.3">
Modified: trunk/BOOK/xsoft/other/fontforge.xml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/xsoft/other/fontforge.xml Mon May 11 19:30:32 2020
(r23104)
+++ trunk/BOOK/xsoft/other/fontforge.xml Mon May 11 20:13:53 2020
(r23105)
@@ -4,15 +4,16 @@
<!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
%general-entities;
-<!-- Note: Be careful with url. The 20161005 is one day greater than
- the version. -->
-
+<!--
<!ENTITY fontforge-download-http
"https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/releases/download/&fontforge-version;/fontforge-dist-&fontforge-version;.tar.xz";>
+-->
+ <!ENTITY fontforge-download-http
"https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/releases/download/&fontforge-version;/fontforge-&fontforge-version;.tar.xz";>
+
<!ENTITY fontforge-download-ftp " ">
- <!ENTITY fontforge-md5sum "8a717035915ab4cd78b89b0942dfa1fc">
+ <!ENTITY fontforge-md5sum "a1f0cf790a659dc28ab7a3b8c4c0279b">
<!ENTITY fontforge-size "14 MB">
- <!ENTITY fontforge-buildsize "247 MB (with tests)">
- <!ENTITY fontforge-time "2.2 SBU (with tests)">
+ <!ENTITY fontforge-buildsize "244 MB (add 50 MB for the tests)">
+ <!ENTITY fontforge-time "0.6 SBU (with with parallelism=4, add 0.1
SBU for the tests)">
]>
<sect1 id="fontforge" xreflabel="FontForge-&fontforge-version;">
@@ -80,37 +81,44 @@
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
<para role="required">
- <xref linkend="freetype2"/>,
- <xref linkend="glib2"/>, and
+ <xref linkend="libspiro"/>,
+ <xref linkend="libuninameslist"/>, and
<xref linkend="libxml2"/>
</para>
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
<para role="recommended">
- <xref linkend="cairo"/>,
- <xref linkend="gtk2"/>,
- <xref linkend="harfbuzz"/>,
- <xref linkend="pango"/> (required if Xorg libraries are present)
- <xref linkend="desktop-file-utils"/>,
- <xref linkend="shared-mime-info"/>, and
- <xref linkend="xorg7-lib"/>
+ <!-- not mentioned:
+ glib is required for gtk3
+ pango is required for gtk3
+ cairo is recommended for pango
+ xorg libs pulled in by gtk3 via libepoxy.
+ -->
+ <xref linkend="gtk3"/>
</para>
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
<para role="optional">
+ <!-- the following references in the source appear not to be used:
+ curl is mentioned in appveyor.yml for msys2 (integration tests, I think)
+ wget is referenced in Unicode/charset/generate.sh which will fail if
+ wget is not on the PATH, and in Unicode/dump.c - with wget moved off the
+ PATH, no problems, i.e. they are never run and never built.
+
+ Some of the others are at a minimum pulled in for recommended deps -
+ libpng from freetype from fontconfig from xorg libs.
+ harfbuzz is the same
+
+ Also, adding or removing optional deps other than Sphinx doesn't seem
+ to materially alter the build time or size.
+ -->
<xref linkend="giflib"/>,
+ <xref linkend="git"/>,
<xref linkend="libjpeg"/>,
- <xref linkend="libpng"/>,
<xref linkend="libtiff"/>,
- <xref linkend="python2"/>,
- <xref linkend="wget"/> (needed for tests),
- <ulink url="http://ipython.org/";>IPython</ulink>,
- <ulink url="https://github.com/fontforge/libspiro";>libspiro</ulink>,
- <ulink url="https://bitbucket.org/sortsmill/libunicodenames";>
- libunicodenames</ulink>,
- <ulink url="https://github.com/fontforge/libuninameslist";>
- libuninameslist</ulink>, and
- <ulink url="http://www.zeromq.org/";>zeromq (libzmq)</ulink>
+ <xref linkend="woff2"/>, and
+ <ulink url="https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Sphinx";>Sphinx</ulink>
+ (to build html documentation)
</para>
<para condition="html" role="usernotes">
@@ -120,32 +128,21 @@
<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of FontForge</title>
-<!--
- <note>
- <para>
- For this version there is a separate and much larger fontforge tarball
- without the -dist- in its name, do not try to use that. The -dist-
version
- was created a few minutes later, but the version was typo'd and it will
- untar to fontforge-2.0-20140101.
- </para>
- </note>
--->
<para>
Install <application>FontForge</application> by running the following
commands:
</para>
-<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr \
- --enable-gtk2-use \
- --disable-static \
- --docdir=/usr/share/doc/fontforge-&fontforge-version; &&
+<screen><userinput>mkdir build &&
+cd build &&
+
+cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
+ -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
+ -Wno-dev .. &&
make</userinput></screen>
<para>
- <!-- 20170731 : MunhwaGothic-Bold (postscript) and NotoSans-Regular.ttc
- are shipped in the tarball, but mingliu.ttc still needs to be downloaded
-->
To test the results, issue: <command>make check</command>.
- This will download one font file.
</para>
<para>
@@ -154,23 +151,36 @@
<screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
+ <para>
+ If you have installed <command>sphinx-build</command>, HTML documentation
+ was built and installed in
+ <filename class="directory">/usr/share/doc/fontforge</filename>.
+ To be able to access it as a versioned directory, create a
+ symlink as the
+ <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
+ </para>
+
+<screen role="root"
+ remap="doc"><userinput>ln -sv fontforge
/usr/share/doc/fontforge-&fontforge-version;</userinput></screen>
+
</sect2>
<sect2 role="commands">
<title>Command Explanations</title>
<para>
- <parameter>--enable-gtk2-use</parameter>: uses the GTK+2 graphics
- instead of basic Xorg graphics.
+ <parameter>-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release</parameter>: This switch is used to
+ create an optimized release without debug information.
</para>
- <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude";
- href="../../xincludes/static-libraries.xml"/>
+ <para>
+ <parameter>-Wno-dev</parameter>: This switch is used to suppress warnings
+ intended for the package's developers.
+ </para>
<para>
- <option>--enable-debug</option>: Turn on <emphasis>debug</emphasis> build
- and FONTFORGE_DEBUG conditional code. Requires
- <ulink url="https://github.com/fontforge/libspiro";>libspiro</ulink>.
+ <option>-DENABLE_X11=ON</option>: use an X11 backend instead of GDK3
+ (gtk+-3) for basic Xorg graphics.
</para>
</sect2>
@@ -180,7 +190,7 @@
<segmentedlist>
<segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
- <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
+ <segtitle>Installed Library</segtitle>
<segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
<seglistitem>
@@ -188,13 +198,12 @@
fontforge, fontimage, fontlint and sfddiff
</seg>
<seg>
- libfontforgeexe.so, libfontforge.so, libgdraw.so,
- libgioftp.so, libgunicode.so, libgutils.so, and
- /usr/lib/python&python2-majorver;/site-packages/{fontforge,psMat}.so
+ libfontforge.so and
+ /usr/lib/python&python3-version;/site-packages/{fontforge,psMat}.so
</seg>
<seg>
- /usr/{include,share}/fontforge and
- /usr/share/doc/fontforge-&fontforge-version;
+ /usr/share/fontforge and optionally
+ /usr/share/doc/fontforge{,-&fontforge-version;}
</seg>
</seglistitem>
</segmentedlist>
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