Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 13:10:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Stacey Roberts <stacey@vickiandstacey.com> To: freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/57622: Portupgrade to latest mplayer version breaks application Message-ID: <200310062010.h96KAG6v081691@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/57622; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Stacey Roberts <stacey@vickiandstacey.com> To: "Thomas E. Zander" <riggs@rrr.de> Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/57622: Portupgrade to latest mplayer version breaks application Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 21:08:42 +0100 Hello Thomas, On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 20:11, Thomas E. Zander wrote: > Yoh, > > On Mon, 06. Oct 2003, at 18:50 +0100, Stacey Roberts wrote > according to [Re: ports/57622: Portupgrade to latest mplayer version breaks application]: > > > > Unfortunately I'm not able to reproduce your problem since it works > > > completely as usual for me. > > > > Not sure how I respond to that.., > > You don't have to. > That's a alternative sentence to "For me it works and for the momemnt > I don't have access to a machine on which it does not." :-) > 'mkay.., > > > According to your output it looks like you have compiled mplayer with > > > freetype. > > > > Err.., I've not explicitly compiled mplayer with anything., all I did to > > install was: > > > > make -DWITH_GUI install clean. > > If you do something like > > ldd /usr/local/bin/mplayer | grep freetype > > and someting like > libfreetype.so.9 => /usr/local/lib/libfreetype.so.9 (0x284a7000) > appears, mplayer is linked against freetype and wants to use truetype > fonts instead of the ones provided in the mplayer-fonts port. > > I'll take a quick look into configure....wait.......errr.....damn! > > I see the problem! > The configure script in mplayer-0.90 defaulted to bitmap fonts, whereas > the new script detects and links against freetype automatically. > > I'll submit a pr to fix this asap! > Cheers for that.., Glad I'm not going crazy. > > I'd be happy to, if I knew how.., Like I said, if there's any > > truetype-anything in there, its not because I actually told mplayer to > > use it. > > Yes, I'm sorry, I didn't see the change to the freetype detection when > checking configure last week, shame on me :-( > > > Anyways.., if there's a link to how I could supply that truetype thingy > > to mplayer, do let me know, I'll give it a try. > > Well, that's easy: Just find any font named <something>.ttf, for > example in a fonts dir of a windows installation, or a web site > providing free truetype font examples (google certainly helps), and > copy this file to ~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf > Okay.., I'll give that a go and see how I get on. > That's it. THe next time you start gmplayer, it will use the font. > > Well, okay, I'll take care of this autodetection thing. > > Thanks for reporting this problem. > No worries.., Thanks for being here to respond :-) Regards, Stacey > Riggs -- Stacey Roberts B.Sc (HONS) Computer Science Web: www.vickiandstacey.com
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