Bug 560277

Summary:	Python import fontforge "SystemError: Missing library: libfontforge"
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Tony Nelson <tonynelson>
Component:	fontforge	Assignee:	Kevin Fenzi <kevin>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	12	CC:	fonts-bugs, kevin, roozbeh
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Fixed In Version:	fontforge-20090622-3.fc12	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description Tony Nelson 2010-01-30 19:05:37 UTC

Description of problem:
$ python
Python 2.6.2 (r262:71600, Aug 21 2009, 12:22:21) 
[GCC 4.4.1 20090818 (Red Hat 4.4.1-6)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import fontforge
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
SystemError: Missing library: libfontforge
>>> 

Fontforge's Python module expects a libfontforge.so file, but fontforge only provides libfontforge.so.1 and libfontforge.so.1.0.0.  Creating a symlink libfontforge.so -> libfontforge.so.1 works.  Either fontforge should include the symlink or the fontforge Python module should use the specific symlink.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
fontforge-20090622-2.fc12.i686

How reproducible:
Every time.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. python
2. import fontforge
3.
  
Actual results:
Traceback

Expected results:
Successful import

Additional info:

Comment 1 Kevin Fenzi 2010-01-31 23:00:12 UTC

I fixed this in devel/rawhide a while ago, but didn't push a f12 build. 

I'll have to look and see if doing so will cause problems.
We don't want to get in the situation where an upgrade to fontforge causes fonts to no longer build...

Comment 2 Kevin Fenzi 2010-03-21 05:38:30 UTC

Sorry for the delay here. 

Turns out there was a typo in my patch. It didn't ever work, but no one told me so, and my test machine was messed up in a way that made it work. ;) 

Please test the f13/f12 builds and add karma if they work for you. 

Thanks very much for the report!

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2010-03-21 05:39:41 UTC

fontforge-20090923-3.fc13 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 13.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/fontforge-20090923-3.fc13

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2010-03-21 05:54:49 UTC

fontforge-20090622-3.fc12 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/fontforge-20090622-3.fc12

Comment 5 Tony Nelson 2010-03-21 21:48:25 UTC

"python -c 'import fontforge'" works now without the symlink workaround, tested fontforge-20090622-3.fc12 on i686.

The Karma comment stuff is too hard to use, so I won't.

Comment 6 Kevin Fenzi 2010-03-21 23:11:49 UTC

No worries. Thanks for testing.

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2010-03-23 01:57:01 UTC

fontforge-20090923-3.fc13 has been pushed to the Fedora 13 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update fontforge'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/fontforge-20090923-3.fc13

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2010-03-23 02:19:27 UTC

fontforge-20090622-3.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update fontforge'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/fontforge-20090622-3.fc12

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2010-04-09 04:24:57 UTC

fontforge-20090923-3.fc13 has been pushed to the Fedora 13 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2010-04-10 10:14:59 UTC

fontforge-20090622-3.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.