On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:02:13AM -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > On 02/16/2011 09:54 AM, Khaled Hosny wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:44:07PM -0200, Rogério Brito wrote: > >> http://packages.qa.debian.org/f/fontforge/news/20110118T151726Z.html > > > > And you can only build lilypond fonts with long double enabled fontforge > > (those need to be built since they are Matafont fonts), so we just > > introduce a bug to fix a non-bug. > > Sounds like fontforge needs to be modified to use long-doubles (or not) > as a runtime option instead of a compile-time option? Or we introduce > two fontforge binary packages, one built with long doubles and one > without? (that seems like an ugly solution to me) > > or maybe there are some other ways to solve this problem for both > packages (and for future packages)? Yes, bundle FF from git :) it should have better long double support, if not submit yet another bug/patch. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Egyptian
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