On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 07:41:09PM +0100, Edmund Grimley Evans wrote: > Source: libfont-freetype-perl > Version: 0.06-1 > It's failing to build on architectures with plain char unsigned:
> https://sources.debian.net/src/libfont-freetype-perl/0.06-1/FreeType.xs/ > might be the implementation of how the char is converted: > > char_code = *str; > > If that's it, it's no surprise that it doesn't work on non-ASCII > characters. Presumably the tests pass by accident on architectures > where plain char is signed. Indeed, I can confirm this. Changing str to an explicit signed char * makes the test suite pass on ppc64el, but that does seem accidental to me too. > You could just disable the failing tests, though it probably wouldn't > be hard to make glyph_from_char work properly. Agreed. -- Niko Tyni [email protected]
