fontforge: upgrade to latest version

[mojca (Mojca Miklavec)]

I'm looking for volunteers to bring FontForge up to date.

• ​https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/releases

[cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)]

Cc Me!

[dbevans (David B. Evans)]

Current version is 20141230 (v2.1).

[matt-macports@…]

Current version is 20150430.

[matt-macports@…]

Cc Me!

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Has duplicate #51821. Current version available upstream is 20160404.

[tessus (Helmut K. C. Tessarek)]

Please have a look at ​https://github.com/tessus/macports-ports/commit/dc6013224ca91ff937c62d0f887749a324872aca

fontforge 20170731

The Portfile can be improved so that PYTHON_CFLAGS and PYTHON_LIBS are not hardcoded. They should rather be set as follows:

PYTHON_CFLAGS="`${PYTHON}-config --cflags`"
PYTHON_LIBS="`${PYTHON}-config --ldflags`"

I just do not know how to do that in the Portfile.

I've also noticed that sudo port install -vst fontforge [+python27] abends in the configure phase for some obscure reason.

However, it compiles and installs perfectly without -t.

Please note that the OSX GUI app compiles correctly, but is unusable for no apparent reason. I tried to get some info about this issue upstream, but they couldn't help. I believe they don't care about the OSX GUI app anymore. This is the reason why I removed the configure options --x-includes=${prefix}/include --x-libraries=${prefix}/lib and replaced them with --without-x.

[raimue (Rainer Müller)]

Do not hardcode PYTHON_CFLAGS and PYTHON_LIBS at all. The build system will figure it out itself based on the python binary you pass as PYTHON. However, it needs the configuration file for pkg-config. Because python is packaged strangely, this is not in the normal search path (I consider it a bug in the python ports).

You should only need this:

configure.env-append    PYTHON=${prefix}/bin/python2.7 \
                        PKG_CONFIG_PATH="${frameworks_dir}/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/pkgconfig"

A application using X11 does not really sound specific to macOS. Have you tried launching it from command line instead of with the .app bundle the port puts together? Probably only the latter has a problem.

[pmetzger (Perry E. Metzger)]

Helmut, after doing raimue's suggested fixes, please make a pull request to the main repo? I promise we will handle it quickly.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

Replying to raimue:

configure.env-append    PYTHON=${prefix}/bin/python2.7 \
                        PKG_CONFIG_PATH="${frameworks_dir}/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/pkgconfig"

Note that there are specific options for both of these, configure.python and configure.pkg_config_path.

[mojca (Mojca Miklavec)]

Link to PR: ​https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/1674

[tessus (Helmut K. C. Tessarek)]

In cf22564d2e5314d3b45f16c89c01b8d24c904c75/macports-ports (master):

fontforge: update to 20170731

#43844

• remove python26 variant
• make python27 variant the default
• add gui variant
• add notes