Did you find that disabling old Mac font support was really necessary to resolve this issue? I was hoping old Mac font support could be retained.
On Aug 21, 2008, at 02:21, Yann Corno wrote: > Dear MacPorts people: > > Following up on this, I finally found the solution. Maybe I was not > recompiling properly FreeType, or maybe the little additional > changes I > made in the configure.args options made it work. Anyway, it works, > so I > am not going to touch it again ;-) > > Here is the procedure: > > * Uninstall Freetype: > > sudo port uninstall -f freetype # The -f option will force the > un-install despite other packages dependencies > > > * Edit the portfile: > > sudo port edit freetype > # In the editor, change the configure.args option like this: > configure.args \ > --with-old-mac-fonts=no \ > --with-quickdraw-toolbox=no --with-quickdraw-carbon=no > > > * Save the portfile, then re-install Freetype: > > sudo port install freetype > > > If you have any comments, I'll be happy to hear them :-) > > Thanks for your attention, > > Yann > > >> Hello everyone: >> >> I am suffering from a crasher recently introduced in FreeType (or >> so it >> seems). After a wild goose chase from Apache to PHP to GD2 to >> FreeType, >> it boils down to a crash because Apache2 uses fork() without a >> corresponding exec() and, upon calling PHP/GD/FreeType, the Carbon >> call >> in FreeType causes Apache2 to crash. This is what is explained here: >> >> http://90kts.com/blog/2008/installing-gd-libraries-for-leopard- >> apache-php-525/#comment-126 >> >> The next comment in the above link explains that FreeType should be >> recompiled with a couple of options off: with-quickdraw-carbon and >> with-quickdraw-toolbox >> >> My question is: how do I do this in MacPort? >> >> I tried to change the portfile like this: >> >> configure.args \ >> --with-old-mac-fonts \ >> --with-fsspec=no --with-fsref=no --with-quickdraw-toolbox=no >> --with-quickdraw-carbon=no >> >> But it does not seem to make any difference. Heck, I am not even sure >> that these options carry through down to the compiler. Sorry, I am >> such >> a MacPort newbee... >> >> Any advise on what I should do? Should I also rebuild gd2 and php5 >> after >> that? >> >> Thanks in advance for your insights, >> >> Yann >> >> PS: I am using Mac OS X 10.5.4 on a PowerPC G4 PowerBook machine, and >> updated to the latest MacPorts builds. _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
