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Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2023 17:36:03 -0500
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Cc: <~alpine/devel@lists.alpinelinux.org>
Subject: Re: Add ttfautohint to testing?
From: "Steven Hum" <sdothum@gmail.com>
To: "Kevin Daudt" <kdaudt@alpinelinux.org>
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Thanks for the suggestion.. (it has been eons since i have been on Arch=20
-- with Void between than and now Alpine :)

i didn't spot anything magical in the AUR spec. There were a few=20
./configure options passed but using those did not produce any different=20
results:

- non root make fails on the same config.h permissions issue (fails to=20
  get created)
- and running make as root fails on the undefined _Bool in the header=20
  file (which is defined elsewhere).

So i'm stumped on this one.. why it's not a straight build considering=20
the seemingly minor steps needed to create the binary. But i am far from=20
qualified to assess the package. Perhaps someone else can chime in..=20
i am still curious.

Steven

On Tue Feb 28, 2023 at 3:52 PM EST, Kevin Daudt wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 02:21:32PM -0500, Steven Hum wrote:
> > i think i solved it..
> >=20
> > Using the latest source version 1.8.4:
> >=20
> > For some reason "make" fails if not executed by root.. (not sure why).=
=20
> > But config.h is not created unless doing so (permissions problem).
> >=20
> > There was still an issue with the make which required injecting
> > "#define _Bool signed char" into lib/llrb.h (again, don't know why).
> >=20
> > With that patch, and running make as root, the build completed.
> >=20
> > It seems to work in the couple of Iosevka font builds i have tried -- a=
t=20
> > least npm is not complaining.
> >=20
> > Not a cozy feeling having to kludge the header file as a person who=20
> > knows nothing about the sw -- just that it is a dependency for my use=
=20
> > case. i am not well versed in makefiles and all that goes into packagin=
g=20
> > a substantial app such as this.
> >=20
> > Thank you for responding so quickly.
> >=20
> > Regards,
> > Steven
> >=20
>
> You could take a look at how it is being built for [archlinux][0] to get
> an idea what you should do (not that not everything maps directly to
> Alpine Linux, but you should get an idea.,
>
> [0]:https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=3Dttfautohint