pkg/26996: magicpoint doesn't configure TTF support

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>Number:         26996
>Category:       pkg
>Synopsis:       magicpoint doesn't configure TTF support
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    pkg-manager
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Sep 19 13:53:00 UTC 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Robert Elz
>Release:        NetBSD 2.0B   (--pkgsrc current as of a few days ago)
>Organization:
        Prince of Songkla University
>Environment:
System: NetBSD delta.noi.kre.to 2.0B NetBSD 2.0B (DELTA) #0: Fri Apr 16 
23:25:38 ICT 2004 
kre%lilac.noi.kre.to@localhost:/usr/obj/current/sys/arch/i386/compile/DELTA i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:
        For quite some time now, magicpoint's autoconf machinery
        fails to find TTF support on the system (even though it
        should, and did previously), so disables its use of TTF
        (which has the effect of making earlier .mgp files that
        use the TTF support generate warnings, and look hideous)

>How-To-Repeat:
        Build a current version of magicpoint

        use a .mgp file that contains lines like ...

%deffont "standard" xfont "helvetica-medium-r", tfont "Bookos.ttf", tmfont "wada
lab-gothic.ttf"
%deffont "thick" xfont "helvetica-bold-r", tfont "bookosb.ttf", tmfont "wadalab-
gothic.ttf"
%deffont "typewriter" xfont "courier-medium-r", tfont "cour.ttf", tmfont "wadala
b-gothic.ttf"

        (the tmfont stuff probably isn't relevant).   Run magicpoint, and
        observe the warnings, and that the TTF fonts aren't used.

        Careful inspection of the autoconf bi-products will show magicpoint
        deciding not to use TTF, though I am unable to work out why.

>Fix:
        No idea.   I suspect this is buried somewhere in the buildlink
        logic for the font machinery - I tried a few random changes on
        the off chance that something would make a difference (you know
        the way novice programmers do when faced with a bug - "what happens
        if I change this line???")   Nothing helped.   (Big surprise!)


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