freetype upgrade for -current May 9 breaks wine
After upgrading freetype to latest 2.10.2 version, wine applications either don't start or start partially (my wine version is Eric's wine-5.6 package).
Trying to run a wine app from terminal gave the message that freetype couldn't be found. Downgraded to freetype-2.10.1 and all is well... The sole difference between the old and new version seems to be that /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6.17.1 is replaced with libfreetype.so.6.17.2. Any clue to why wine can't handle that change? Oh, and yes - I run -current multilib, and I did create a freetype compat32 version and upgraded that, too... |
Working just fine here, but, then, I just run a simple ms-windows application from 1994, "The American Heritage Electronic Dictionary". All the fonts look as they should.
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I only run four applications on wine:
Harzing's Publish or Perish - works with the latest freetype upgrade but leaves a residual "blob" on the desktop after closing. A simple ms-application (church records database) - starts, but with broken search engine Softmaker's FlexiPDF - won't start. Adobe ADE - won't start. Update - tried the following: Reinstalling wine - no change creating a fresh prefix - no change (I get the "Wine cannot find the FreeType font library" message) tried a dirty trick creating a symlink /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6.17.1 pointing at 6.17.2 (with symlinks libfreetype.so and so.6 pointing at the new symlink) - no change To me it seems as there's something in the new libfreetype library that causes this. |
Solved.
I remembered that I had one other 32 bit program installed, namely acrobat reader. Trying to start that with the latest freetype gave me the error message Code:
/opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread: error while loading shared libraries: libbrotlidec.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory This is a consequence of the latest freetype having support for woff 2: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pa....10.2-Released Created/installed a brotli-1.0.7 compat32 package, acrobta reader and all my wine apps run again :D |
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