Re: [ft-devel] freetype2.pc: Missing include directory

2005-08-26 Thread Werner LEMBERG
The generated freetype2.pc file lists ${includedir}/freetype2 but not ${includedir} which causes code to fail to find ft2build.h if freetype is installed in a non-standard directory. freetype-config, on the other hand, gets this right. Trivial patch attached. Applied, thanks. Werner

Re: [ft-devel] Digital signatures

2005-08-26 Thread Antoine Leca
On Thursday, August 25th, 2005 14:17Z George Williams wrote: First of all that seems a very weak form of protection. I believe it is more social than technically effective. Secondly I don't really understand what damage a font can do to my system. The worst I can think of is a) crash the X

Re: [ft-devel] Digital signatures

2005-08-26 Thread Rogier van Dalen
On 8/26/05, Antoine Leca [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DSIG is a MS thing, and they have (thanks to the monolithic architecture which integrates the GUI with the kernel, while targetting both workstations and servers) to think about these issues. I don't see how a bad font can have any real

Re: [ft-devel] Digital signatures

2005-08-26 Thread Antoine Leca
Salut David, Tu peux dormir ? ;-) On Thursday, August 25th, 2005 15:18Z Turner, David wrote: My opinion is that the DSIG table is the brain-child of DRM-obsessed managers at Microsoft Typography (or above), who don't understand much things regarding security. They only understand that

RE: [ft-devel] Digital signatures

2005-08-26 Thread Turner, David
Salut Antoine, Useless about security, probably. Yes Worse, the MS tool that signs does not check many things (and certainly not possible exploit, since none are known ;-)), and anyway you can set it up to allow signing using /another/ checking tool... Which are the reasons why you,

Re: [ft-devel] Digital signatures

2005-08-26 Thread Werner LEMBERG
I seem to remember talk about testing FreeType on randomly corrupted fonts; has any work on this been done? AFAIK, George has started with some work. For my part, I've done nothing, alas. Werner ___ Freetype-devel mailing list

Re: [ft-devel] randomly corrupting tests

2005-08-26 Thread George Williams
On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 05:44, Werner LEMBERG wrote: I seem to remember talk about testing FreeType on randomly corrupted fonts; has any work on this been done? AFAIK, George has started with some work. For my part, I've done nothing, alas. I have a little program which makes a