ppc and x86_64 testing request

[Justin Conover]

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
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