freetype needs --with-old-mac-fonts to properly handle resource-fork-only fonts

[blb@…]

Several fonts in /Library/Fonts are resource-fork-only (eg Arial which has a data-fork size of 0) and will not be seen by freetype (and hence fontconfig, where I first saw this problem) without the --with-old-mac-fonts switch to configure. This can be seen by running /opt/local/bin/fc-list (part of fontconfig) and looking for the basic Arial font. Without the switch, it only sees the Arial Hebrew (which are data-fork fonts), and with the switch, several more Arial fonts appear.

Will attach the simple Portfile diff.

[blb@…]

Portfile diff

[ryandesign@…]

It seems like a good change to make, but both before and after this patch, fc-list only shows me the Arial Hebrew fonts, though I have other Arial fonts in /Library/Fonts. Any ideas what's wrong?

[blb@…]

You probably need to clear the fontconfig cache each time, I think I remember doing that; it's in /opt/local/var/cache/fontconfig.

[ryandesign@…]

Added in r31552. Thanks.

[ryandesign@…]

This option causes problems on Leopard (and presumably later) when freetype is accessed from php working as an Apache module; see #15909. Fortunately it seems Apple has converted most of its old resource fork fonts to data fork fonts in Leopard. So hopefully it's ok that this option is, as of r42513, now only used on Tiger and earlier.

[blb@…]

Replying to ryandesign@…:

This option causes problems on Leopard (and presumably later) when freetype is accessed from php working as an Apache module; see #15909. Fortunately it seems Apple has converted most of its old resource fork fonts to data fork fonts in Leopard. So hopefully it's ok that this option is, as of r42513, now only used on Tiger and earlier.

Considering my suggestion in 15909, hopefully that answers my opinion on losing with-old-mac-fonts on 10.5...

[anonymous]

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