Bug 124998 – FontForge internal error: I can't figure out your version of iconv()

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Michael Ploujnikov 2006-03-04 11:57:09 UTC]

I tried both 20050502 and 20050624 versions of fontforge, and this is what I get when I run it:

$ fontforge 
Copyright (c) 2000-2005 by George Williams.
 Executable based on sources from 12:40 24-Jun-2005.
Internal Error:
I can't figure out your version of iconv(). I need a name for the UCS2 encoding and I can't find one. Reconfigure --without-iconv. Bye.

[Comment 1 Michael Ploujnikov 2006-03-04 12:12:56 UTC]

I tried building the lates fontforge (20060209) from source, and that also gives me the same result.

This is the version of glibc I'm running:

sys-libs/glibc-2.3.5-r2  -build -erandom -glibc-compat20 -glibc-omitfp -hardened -linuxthreads-tls (-multilib) +nls +nptl +nptlonly -pic -profile (-selinux) +userlocales

[Comment 2 SpanKY 2006-04-09 10:46:56 UTC]

you could try fontforge-20060406

[Comment 3 Michael Ploujnikov 2006-04-10 10:32:57 UTC]

I get a similar error with that version as well:

$ fontforge 
Copyright (c) 2000-2006 by George Williams.
 Executable based on sources from 20:17 6-Apr-2006-ML.
Internal Error:
I can't figure out your version of iconv(). I need a name for the UCS2 encoding and I can't find one. Reconfigure --without-iconv. Bye.

[Comment 4 Michael Ploujnikov 2006-04-24 20:34:41 UTC]

I would like to know if anyone actually ran fontforge (any version) on amd64.

[Comment 5 Michael Ploujnikov 2006-04-25 16:44:49 UTC]

Created attachment 85503 [details]
fixed ebuild

[Comment 6 Michael Ploujnikov 2006-04-26 15:04:40 UTC]

Instead of the proposed fix to configure FF using --without-iconv, glibc should be fixed as per this bug #131386

[Comment 7 Michael Ploujnikov 2006-07-01 12:46:56 UTC]

media-gfx/fontforge-20060408 has this fixed