The Graphite compiler adds Graphite tables to a font according to a Graphite Description Language program.
Created attachment 143277 [details] grcompiler-2.4.ebuild As with Graphite itself, there is no upstream source tarball. It can be made from svn://scripts.sil.org/graphite/grcompiler/tags/v2.4
Created attachment 143279 [details, diff] grcompiler-r767-include-path.patch Makes the compiler pass the appropriate option to the preprocessor to find the stddef.gdh file.
Created attachment 143280 [details, diff] grcompiler-r815-debug-CFLAGS.patch Stops the configure script from doing naughty things to CFLAGS.
Created attachment 143282 [details] grcompiler-r815-dynamic-icu-3.8.patch Support ICU 3.8, and use the shared library.
Created attachment 143283 [details, diff] grcompiler-r815-tests.patch Fix tests compilation (seems the graphite API has changed slightly since they were written).
Created attachment 143284 [details, diff] grcompiler-r815-xmlto.patch Use xmlto to generate the man page instead of docbook2X, since the latter appears to be utterly broken.
> ESVN_BOOTSTRAP="eautoreconf" *cough* This is of course unnecessary for the snapshot ebuild....
I've sent the include-path and tests patches to upstream's SourceForge tracker. I didn't do the others because they're not bug fixes, they just make the package work better in a Gentoo environment.
Created attachment 146250 [details, diff] grcompiler-r767-64bit.patch Fixes a 64-bit glitch that, on my machine, only shows itself if both the include-path patch /and/ prelink are used.
Created attachment 146251 [details, diff] grcompiler-r767-include-path.patch Updated patch to apply on top of the 64-bit one.
David, fonts herd is currently understaffed to maintain this package in the main tree, so I suggest you to maintain this and related packages in sunrise overlay: http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/sunrise/wiki This way for users it'll be not much harder to install this package and for you it'll be easier to maintain it since svn is much more convenient then bugzilla attachments. Please, take a look at and join sunrise project.
Upstream moved here: https://github.com/silnrsi/grcompiler
Since the move of upstream to GitHub, it would appear they now offer at least one packaged release for v5.2.1, so that's an improvement over what's discussed in history of this bug... Looks like this software is available in the 4nykey ebuild repo, so anyone (still) interested can install from there: https://github.com/4nykey/4nykey We'll close this as FIXED since it would appear the intention of the Fonts Project (comment in #c11) was to maintain the ebuild in the now defunct Sunrise ebuild repo. Perhaps if there is community interest someone could work on moving it from 4nykey into GURU?