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-current: harfbuzz broke audacious and vlc

reverting back to harfbuzz 1.4.6 fixed the issue

vlc is not part of the Slackware, so you might need to rebuilt vlc

but audacious is, and harfbuzz 1.4.7 breaks it in -current

It works fine here
can you try to run it on terminal and paste the output?

My VLC package works fine on -current, perhaps you are referring to the VLC of SlackBuilds.org which you compiled yourself?

The plot thickens. This time I compiled harfbuzz-1.4.7 locally. The self-compiled package works well. However, my "official" harfbuzz-1.4.7 package does not. The latter produces

Code:

$ audacious

ERROR plugin-load.cc:72 [plugin_load]: /usr/lib64/audacious/General/gtkui.so could not be loaded: /usr/lib64/../lib64/libharfbuzz.so.0: undefined symbol: FT_Get_Var_Blend_Coordinates

WARNING plugin-init.cc:102 [start_plugin]: GTK Interface failed to start.

ERROR plugin-load.cc:72 [plugin_load]: /usr/lib64/audacious/General/skins.so could not be loaded: /usr/lib64/../lib64/libharfbuzz.so.0: undefined symbol: FT_Get_Var_Blend_Coordinates

WARNING plugin-init.cc:102 [start_plugin]: Winamp Classic Interface failed to start.

ERROR plugin-init.cc:147 [start_required]: No interface plugin found.

(Did you forget to install audacious-plugins?)

Aborted

I obtain a copy of the "official" tree through a nightly rsync job. The remote server is rsync.osuosl.org::slackware/ . For the record, I use Eric's mirror script, but I haven't upgraded it in a while:

Code:

# $Id: mirror-slackware-current.sh,v 1.78 2010/03/25 18:41:09 root Exp root $

@Eric, also for the record, I use your VLC package. ^_^

Anyway, next I deleted the "official" harfbuzz-1.4.7 package and rsynced again. Unfortunately, the newly downloaded copy shows the same issue. So I installed my self-compiled package and now everything works fine.

@Martinus2u: What is your VLC package version ?

vlc and audacious work perfectly here on current, are you sure that you have installed the x86_64 packages ?

@willysr: we can leave vlc completely out of the discussion (for the record it is vlc-2.2.6-x86_64-1alien). let's focus on the standard packages:

slackware64-current/slackware64/l/harfbuzz-1.4.7-x86_64-1.txz
slackware64-current/slackware64/xap/audacious-3.8.2-x86_64-1.txz
slackware64-current/slackware64/xap/audacious-plugins-3.8.2-x86_64-3.txz

@gmgf: yes I am sure

Quote:

Originally Posted by Martinus2u (Post 5741747)

The plot thickens. This time I compiled harfbuzz-1.4.7 locally. The self-compiled package works well. However, my "official" harfbuzz-1.4.7 package does not. The latter produces

Code:

$ audacious

ERROR plugin-load.cc:72 [plugin_load]: /usr/lib64/audacious/General/gtkui.so could not be loaded: /usr/lib64/../lib64/libharfbuzz.so.0: undefined symbol: FT_Get_Var_Blend_Coordinates

WARNING plugin-init.cc:102 [start_plugin]: GTK Interface failed to start.

could it be you are using there a custom freetype package < 2.8.x or you have custom freetype libraries installed somewhere (like /usr/local/lib64)?
FT_Get_Var_Blend_Coordinates is a freetype 2.8.x function.

looking around a little on google your issue seems pretty common between people installing the infinality bundle that, in fact, includes a custom freetype.

Can confirm that I also had that error because of Infinality installed. I removed Infinality and installed the Slackware official freetype package which removed the error.

good find. indeed that is the explanation. my freetype is stuck at 2.6.3 since the infiniality bundle stopped being maintained.

And the harfbuzz configure script checks for FT_Get_Var_Blend_Coordinates. Thats why a local compiler build works.

So ultimately I will have to find another solution to get decent font rendering. Sigh. why can't anything be simple.

On Slackware-current you can edit the file /etc/profile.d/freetype.sh and enable:

Code:

export FREETYPE_PROPERTIES="truetype:interpreter-version=38"

by removing the '#' in front of it. The infinality mode is now part of Freetype itself, and you might not need more.

Infinality is more or less obsolete now because, like Alien Bob said, much of the infinality code has been merged into freetype. See this post I made a while back. Follow it and you will get fonts that are basically identical to infinality.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ml#post5703329

I talk about freetype 2.7.1 in the post but it is the same for 2.8 that is now in -current

Thanks Eric and Daedra. I followed the advice and now I'm running on standard Slackware again. Visually I'd say that the small fonts don't look so great. I shall look into tweaking the renderer.