ppc and x86_64 testing request

Justin Conover justin.conover at gmail.com
Tue Mar 14 16:24:06 UTC 2006


On 3/14/06, Justin Conover <justin.conover at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 3/14/06, Michael A. Peters <mpeters at mac.com> wrote:
> >
> > Request for fc5test3 on ppc and x86_64
> >
> > silgraphite is a font engine for non latin script fonts.
> >
> > The project is getting ready for 2.0 release.
> > The developers want 2.0 to work in FC5 w/o needing patching.
> > It currently does on x86. I can not test on ppc/x86_64
> >
> > If you have a ppc/x86_64 machine running FC5Test3 and you would like to
> > help, please do the following:
> >
> > 0) make sure your pango (and pango-devel) packages are current
> >
> > 1) grab my src.rpm from:
> >
> > http://mpeters.us/silgraphite/
> >
> > 2) Install the Doulis SIL font.
> > Link to download on page above.
> >
> > It hasn't yet been packaged for Fedora, I'll be submitting a spec file
> > to Extras soon. But in the mean time, just throw it in ~/.fonts and run
> > fc-cache
> >
> > 3) rebuild the src.rpm
> >
> > If there is a compile error, and I hope there isn't, you can report it
> > to the sourceforge project:
> >
> > http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=66144&atid=513479
> >
> > or to me
> >
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=176071
> >
> > 4) If build completes, install the resulting silgraphite and
> > pango-silgraphite rpm's
> >
> > 5) use the sil.txt file on the http://mpeters.us/silgraphite/ page (link
> > at bottom)
> >
> > Opening the file with gedit, it should look like the lower image.
> > If you get to step five - please notify whether it works or not at
> >
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=176071
> >
> > (if it doesn't work, it *may* be a packaging error on my part - due to
> > multilib, some macros that are arch specific are set)
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > -=-
> > silgraphite and the various SIL fonts that use it will allow inexpensive
> > computers running Linux to be used in 3rd world countries allowing the
> > native languages of the people in those countries to be properly
> > displayed and used. Inexpensive likely means x86 (which does work) but
> > it still would be nice if any ppc/x86_64 issues with fc5 are known
> > before they do final release.
> >
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>
> Here is as much as I could get from my terminal of rpmbuild that failed on
> x86_64
>
>
here is the rpm-tmp.64427 file too
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