Bug 2844 – xpdf build failure

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Ian Smith 2002-05-19 04:49:51 UTC]

FTFont.cc: In method `Guchar * FTFont::getGlyphPixmap(unsigned int, unsigned
int, int *, int *, int *, int *)':
FTFont.cc:500: request for member `num_glyphs' in `*cff', which is of
non-aggregate type `CFF_FontRec_ *'
FTFont.cc:501: request for member `charset' in `*cff', which is of non-aggregate
type `CFF_FontRec_ *'
make[1]: *** [FTFont.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/huge/tmp/portage/xpdf-1.00/work/xpdf-1.00/xpdf'
make: *** [all] Error 2

!!! ERROR: The ebuild did not complete successfully.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 8, Exitcode 2
!!! (no error message)

!!! emerge aborting on  /usr/portage/app-text/xpdf/xpdf-1.00.ebuild .

5 $ pkgsearch xpdf  
/usr/portage/app-text/xpdf/xpdf-0.93.ebuild
/usr/portage/app-text/xpdf/xpdf-1.00-r1.ebuild   (installed)
/usr/portage/app-text/xpdf/xpdf-1.00.ebuild

Looks like my working version is masked, and the system is trying to downgrade
but failing.

USE="doc aalib crypt oss matrox fbcon truetype mozilla mozirc mozxmlterm mpeg
tcltk mta-tls tcpd"

[Comment 1 Spider (RETIRED) 2002-05-19 13:33:43 UTC]

emerge freetype 2.0.9 instead of 2.1.0 

2.1.0 has been quite wickedly buggy and is masked, the updated revision of xpdf
only works with that version of freetype and is also masked.

[Comment 2 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2002-05-24 04:48:19 UTC]

do an emerge --clean rsync and then emerge -u world

That should get you the working freetype (2.0.9) and the new xpdf which seems to
work fine with that freetype.