[Wine] Latest CVS: no fonts?

[Daniel Skorka]

Please keep this on the list.

> I know that a CVS version doesn't necessary represent a fully-functional
> version.  I just wanted to see if my experience was the bug 5057 that was
> already reported (Core fonts don't install if they're found on the
> host<http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5057>)
> or if it was something new.

I don't think you are seeing bug #5057.

> I have fontforge installed by RPM.  configure (actually tools/wineinstall)
> did warn me about fontforge.  On my first attempt, I didn't have it
> installed at all.  Now, I see confusing version information reported  by rpm
> ...
> 
> Version    : 0.0
> Release    : 0.cvs20050502.2.el4.rf
> Vendor     : Dries RPM Repository http://dries.ulyssis.org/rpm/
> Build Date : Mon 11 Jul 2005 02:33:09 PM MYT
> 
> So I guess that the packager downloaded fontforge from CVS and built the
> RPM.  Is this a problem?

That is not a problem. But your version may be too old. At least your
problem is exactly what happens if your version of fontforge is too old.

Daniel