Re: Homebrew, Mac 10.9, and Pango: Fontforge crashes on start

This must already be resolved upstream. Installing as follows works:

    brew -v install fontforge --HEAD --with-cairo --with-czmq --with-gif --with-x --with-libspiro --with-pango --enable-pyextension

On Oct 26, 2013, at 1:33 PM, Martin Diers <[email protected]> wrote:

> I am running OS X 10.9, Xcode 5.0.1, XQuartz 2.7.4 and Homebrew.
> 
> Homebrew prefix is freshly installed.
> 
> The following command was used to build with Homebrew:
> 
>    brew -v install fontforge --with-cairo --with-czmq --with-gif --with-x --with-libspiro --with-pango
> 
> 
> 
> When I build fontforge with Pango support, fontforgs crashes at start, as follows:
> 
>    ~> fontforge
>    Copyright (c) 2000-2012 by George Williams.
>    Executable based on sources from 14:57 GMT 31-Jul-2012-D.
>    Library based on sources from 14:57 GMT 31-Jul-2012.
>    fontforge(13571,0x7fff7afa1310) malloc: *** error for object 0x7fa068e025b0: pointer being freed was not allocated
>    *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
>    fish: Job 1, 'fontforge ' terminated by signal SIGABRT (Abort)
> 
> 
> Everything works fine if I build without Pango
> 
>    brew -v install fontforge --with-cairo --with-czmq --with-gif --with-x --with-libspiro
> 
> 


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