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authorMarius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>2020-04-24 18:19:02 +0200
committerMarius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>2020-04-24 18:19:02 +0200
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parentf568581c2bfb3a7367442c9ccc23613c43f6f1e9 (diff)
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gnu: font-gnu-freefont: Build with an older version of FontForge.
Fixes <https://bugs.gnu.org/40819>. Reported by Jack Hill <jackhill@jackhill.us>. * gnu/packages/fontutils.scm (fontforge-20190801): New public variable. * gnu/packages/fonts.scm (font-gnu-freefont)[native-inputs]: Change from inherited FontForge variant to FONTFORGE-20190801.
-rw-r--r--gnu/packages/fonts.scm12
-rw-r--r--gnu/packages/fontutils.scm29
2 files changed, 33 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/packages/fonts.scm b/gnu/packages/fonts.scm
index 21423baefd..6e9b080299 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/fonts.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/fonts.scm
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
;;; Copyright © 2016 Eric Bavier <bavier@member.fsf.org>
;;; Copyright © 2016 Dmitry Nikolaev <cameltheman@gmail.com>
;;; Copyright © 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
-;;; Copyright © 2016 Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
+;;; Copyright © 2016, 2020 Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
;;; Copyright © 2016 Toni Reina <areina@riseup.net>
;;; Copyright © 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
;;; Copyright © 2017 José Miguel Sánchez García <jmi2k@openmailbox.com>
@@ -236,6 +236,8 @@ The Lato 2.010 family supports more than 100 Latin-based languages, over
(define-public font-gnu-freefont
(package
(name "font-gnu-freefont")
+ ;; Note: Remove the special FontForge input and package once the 2020
+ ;; release is out.
(version "20120503")
(source (origin
(method url-fetch)
@@ -289,12 +291,8 @@ The Lato 2.010 family supports more than 100 Latin-based languages, over
(lambda (file) (string-suffix? "woff" file))
(find-files "." "")))))))
#:test-target "tests"))
- ;; replace python 3 with python 2
- ;; python 3 support commits aren't yet released in 20120503
- ;; so freefont needs python 2 support in fontforge
- (native-inputs `(("fontforge" ,(package (inherit fontforge)
- (inputs `(("python-2" ,python-2)
- ,@(package-inputs fontforge)))))))
+ ;; FreeFont anno 2012 requires a FontForge built with Python 2.
+ (native-inputs `(("fontforge" ,fontforge-20190801)))
(home-page "https://www.gnu.org/software/freefont/")
(synopsis "Unicode-encoded outline fonts")
(description
diff --git a/gnu/packages/fontutils.scm b/gnu/packages/fontutils.scm
index a77cf9ebf0..d78811b2e8 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/fontutils.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/fontutils.scm
@@ -60,7 +60,9 @@
#:use-module (guix build-system cmake)
#:use-module (guix build-system gnu)
#:use-module (guix build-system python)
- #:use-module (guix build-system meson))
+ #:use-module (guix build-system meson)
+ #:use-module (guix utils)
+ #:use-module (srfi srfi-1))
(define-public freetype
(package
@@ -640,6 +642,31 @@ generate bitmaps.")
(license license:gpl3+)
(home-page "https://fontforge.github.io")))
+;; This is the last version that supports Python 2, which is needed for
+;; GNU FreeFont. Remove once no longer required.
+(define-public fontforge-20190801
+ (package
+ (inherit fontforge)
+ (version "20190801")
+ (source (origin
+ (method url-fetch)
+ (uri (string-append
+ "https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/releases/download/"
+ version "/fontforge-" version ".tar.gz"))
+ (sha256
+ (base32 "0lh8yx01asbzxm6car5cfi64njh5p4lxc7iv8dldr5rwg357a86r"))))
+ (build-system gnu-build-system)
+ (arguments
+ (substitute-keyword-arguments (package-arguments fontforge)
+ ((#:configure-flags _)
+ ''())
+ ((#:phases phases)
+ `(modify-phases ,phases
+ (delete 'do-not-override-RPATH)))))
+ (inputs
+ `(("python" ,python-2)
+ ,@(alist-delete "python" (package-inputs fontforge))))))
+
(define-public python2-ufolib
(package
(name "python2-ufolib")