On 02/04/2014 10:28 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 09:03:15PM +0000, Ken Moffat wrote: >> This ticket lists a whole lot of changes to how we build Tex from >> source. I took it, because I don't (in general) like packages which >> use their own static versions of system libs. But I now see that >> the following are external references: GD, t1lib, ZZIPlib, TECkit, >> Graphite, and also CLISP (not needed for the main part of Tex, if >> I'm now reading the ticket correctly). >> >> Maybe Pierre spotted this, which is why he said he hadn't got time >> before the package freeze - I was thinking "just change the >> instructions for the existing package version". My mistake. >> >> And more generally, do we want these extra packages if they are >> only used by TeX ? I have no idea about the vulnerabilities history >> of any of them, nor how the TeX developers handle upstream changes >> to these libs. >> > > Looking a little further after posting (I'm good at that), I see > that firefox can use graphite, BUT it is turned off by default, and > although 26.0 seems to include a local copy [ I'm still downloading > 27 ] there is no option to use a system version. However, > libreoffice DOES allow for system graphite so I guess that might be > worth having. > > t1lib, CLISP, TECkit do not seem to have had any recent releases. > Looking at fedora cgit, they patch t1lib for various > vulnerabilities. For clisp they are using a mercurial snapshot, so > perhaps it is one of those projects that no longer makes releases. > > TECkit looks to be fairly straightforward, bar a missing header for > recent C++ and apparently a need to run autogen.sh to create > configure. > > I'm coming round to the idea of adding these tools, but for at least > graphite I want to confirm that libreoffice will use it, in a fresh > build. > >> Opinions, please. >> > > ĸen >
I can confirm that libreoffice will use system graphite (graphite2) without any problems. Note that harfbuzz can also use graphite for aditional renderer or whatever. -- Note: My last name is not Krejzi. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
