[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] Allow imagemagick to find ghostscript fonts.

[Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>]

Hi Robert,

On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 02:27:23PM -0400, grepper wrote:
> On 15/06/15 11:39 PM, Baruch Siach wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 10:12:26PM -0400, grepper wrote:
> >> From: Robert Sohn <grepper@gmail.com>
> >>
> >> It appears that Imagemagick needs to be configured with
> >>  --with-gs-font-dir=/usr/share/fonts/gs else it will not find
> >> the ghostscript fonts and /etc/ImageMagick-6/type-ghostscript.xml
> >> will contain the wrong font paths. You end up with messages like:
> >> Magick: unable to read font `(null)' @ error/annotate.c/RenderFreetype/1153
> >> They are non-fatal but could get annoying fast if you are using 'convert'
> >> on a lot of files.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Robert Sohn <grepper@gmail.com>
> >> ---
> >>  package/imagemagick/imagemagick.mk | 3 ++-
> >>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/package/imagemagick/imagemagick.mk b/package/imagemagick/imagemagick.mk
> >> index 298d0a8..1abb2a8 100644
> >> --- a/package/imagemagick/imagemagick.mk
> >> +++ b/package/imagemagick/imagemagick.mk
> >> @@ -33,7 +33,8 @@ IMAGEMAGICK_CONF_OPTS = \
> >>  	--without-dps \
> >>  	--without-gslib \
> >>  	--without-fpx \
> >> -	--without-x
> >> +	--without-x \
> >> +	--with-gs-font-dir=/usr/share/fonts/gs
> > 
> > These fonts are only available when the ghostscript-fonts is built, isn't it? 
> > If so, then this should be
> > 
> > ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_GHOSTSCRIPT_FONTS),y)
> > IMAGEMAGICK_CONF_OPTS += --with-gs-font-dir=/usr/share/fonts/gs
> > endif
> > 
> > Or maybe we should use $(GHOSTSCRIPT_FONTS_TARGET_DIR) here, instead of 
> > duplicating it?
> 
> Hm, the problem is that the issue will remain if ghostscript-fonts are
> not installed. I don't know the solution to that.

The usual way to set a dependency package is to add a 'select' statement for 
that package in Config.in. In this case ghostscript-fonts is not a hard 
dependency, because imagemagick is quite functional without it, and its size 
is non negligible. Maybe adding a comment to the help text in Config.in would 
suffice.

What do others think?

> It seems strange that imagemagick can not find a default font when 'convert 
> -list font' shows many, ttf and otherwise.

baruch

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