On Sun, Aug 04, 2019 at 09:33:10PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote:
> On 8/4/19 6:17 PM, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote:
>
> > >
> > > I propose that we revert Pango to 1.42.x from 1.44.3 because of
> > > their dropping of bitmap font support, recommendation to use an
> > > unstable cairo, problems with PyGTK, and rendering issues.
> > >
> > https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pango/issues/386
> >
> > I forgot to add that in - Type1 fonts in GTK+2 are affected as well.
>
> I will revert to pango-1.42.4 tomorrow unless there are objections. We are
> a little less than two weeks away from package freeze for the next release
> and it doesn't look like this will get resolved before then.
>
> -- Bruce
>
Just for the record, it also broke inkscape:
In file included from /usr/include/pango-1.0/pango/pangoft2.h:32,
from
/scratch/working/inkscape-0.92.4/src/libnrtype/FontInstance.cpp:25:
/usr/include/pango-1.0/pango/pangofc-font.h:67:12: note: declared here
67 | gpointer pango_fc_font_lock_face (PangoFcFont *font);
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/scratch/working/inkscape-0.92.4/src/libnrtype/FontInstance.cpp:272:36: error:
invalid conversion from 'gpointer' {aka 'void*'} to 'FT_Face' {aka
'FT_FaceRec_*'} [-fpermissive]
272 | theFace=pango_fc_font_lock_face(PANGO_FC_FONT(pFont));
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| |
| gpointer {aka void*}
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