Francois Gouget wrote: > On Thu, 13 Nov 2008, Wine Wiki wrote: > [...] > >> - Unless you plan to work on the TrueType fonts you don't need >> FontForge. If you do, then be aware that the FontForge packages from >> Breezy and Dapper are a bit out of date. The fonts generated by most >> versions of FontForge will not pass the gdi32/tests/fonts.c tests. >> + Be aware that the FontForge packages from Breezy and Dapper are a >> bit out of date. The fonts generated by most versions of FontForge >> will not pass the gdi32/tests/fonts.c tests. >> > [...] > >> - Note that, unless you are tracking Git and know what you are doing, >> you SHOULDN'T have valgrind. Also, unless you plan to work on the >> TrueType fonts you don't need FontForge. >> + Note that, unless you are tracking Git and know what you are doing, >> you SHOULDN'T have valgrind. >> > [...] > >> - Unless you plan to work on the TrueType fonts you don't need FontForge. >> > [...] > >> - * The following, but ''only'' if you plan to work on the TrueType >> fonts, and can install them from ''testing'' - '''do not''' install >> these from ''Sarge'': >> + * '''Do not''' install these from ''Sarge'': >> * fontforge/testing >> > > I think these changes are wrong. As far as I know the TrueType fonts are > checked into Git so one does not need to have FontForge to build Wine. > Or has this changed? Or is FontForge needed to build another type of > fonts? > > Fracois:
FontForge is required to build Darwine. MacOSX does not come with the necessary parts to support TrueType fonts. James McKenzie
