[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#840393: Bug#840393: Bug#840393: mensis: FTBFS with newly released fontforge

[Adrian Bunk]

On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 10:15:34PM +0530, Vasudev Kamath wrote:
>...
> Hideki Yamane <henrich at debian.or.jp> writes:
>...
> >  However, if we'll fix header inclusion, still get failure...
> >
> > libtool: link: gcc -o makenomenh -g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/mensis-0.0.080507=. -fPIE -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wmissing-prototypes -Wunused -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wparentheses -Wformat -Wchar-subscripts -Wsequence-point -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"\" -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"\" -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"\" -DPACKAGE_URL=\"\" -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_SYS_TYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_STAT_H=1 -DHAVE_STDLIB_H=1 -DHAVE_STRING_H=1 -DHAVE_MEMORY_H=1 -DHAVE_STRINGS_H=1 -DHAVE_INTTYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_STDINT_H=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -DHAVE_DLFCN_H=1 -DLT_OBJDIR=\".libs/\" -D_NO_XINPUT=1 -D_NO_XKB=1 ./.libs/makenomenh.o  -lgdraw -lgutils -lgunicode -lSM -lICE -lX11 -ldl -lgif -lm /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreetype.so 
> > ./.libs/makenomenh.o: In function `handleint':
> > ././makenomenh.c:81: undefined reference to `grealloc'
> > ./.libs/makenomenh.o: In function `makenomenh':
> > ././makenomenh.c:160: undefined reference to `grealloc'
> > ././makenomenh.c:161: undefined reference to `grealloc'
> > collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> > Makefile:49: recipe for target 'mensis-en.ui' failed
> > make[1]: *** [mensis-en.ui] Error 1
> 
> Here it looks like the problem is in mensis?. I mean grealloc undefined
> reference is raising from makenomenh.c which is part of mensis. But I do
> agree the headers are slightly messed which can be reported to fontforge
> upstream. A quick google shows grealloc is defined in graphviz library
> is it a dependency for mensis?.. ¹
> 
> ¹ http://www.graphviz.org/pub/graphviz/development/doxygen/html/common_2memory_8c.html#a1912ff27e68202cc621674540faa4198

In unstable this is provided by:
  /usr/include/fontforge/basics.h:extern void *grealloc(void *,long size);

cu
Adrian

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