[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#609094: fontforge: Fails to build ttf-dejavu

[Adam D. Barratt]

On Fri, 2011-01-07 at 17:36 +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  While I investigated this Bug#609094, I could build it with fontforge
>  0.0.20100501-2. However, with 0.0.20100501-3 it couldn't be succeed.
> 
>  So, I guessed the change in 0.0.20100501-3 is somthing wrong, and dropped
>  "--enable-double" option from debian/rules built ttf-dejavu fine.
> 
>  Can we drop this option?

The changelog for -3 says:

 * debian/rules: added the option --enable-double in the fontforge configure
   stage for decrease endless problems in the intersection code case.

Although I have to admit to not being entirely sure what that means.

Regards,

Adam