Description of problem: Python bindings for fontforge don't work, importing the fontforge module fails on a 32 bit F11 rawhide system. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): fontforge-20090224-1.fc11.i586 Steps to Reproduce: python -c 'import fontforge' Actual results: Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in <module> SystemError: Missing library: libgunicode Expected results: No output (=> fontforge library could be imported and is ready to use in Python) Additional info: /usr/lib/libgunicode.so.3[.0.1] is present but there is no symlink from /usr/lib/libgunicode.so. The same holds true for libgutils.so and libfontforge.so.
Looks like debian is shipping a patch for this issue. Upstream is trying to dlopen the .so file it wants manually. Unfortunately the debian solution needs more work to work for us, as they hardcode lib in there and we need lib or lib64. ;( I will try and come up with a patch soon. ;(
I thought that maybe just supplying a symling from /usr/lib/libgunicode.so to /usr/lib/libgunicode.so.3 would be sufficient - at least this did the trick for me.
Well, the link would be enough to get 32bit installs working, but would break on any 64bit one. (It hard codes /usr/lib/ instead of /usr/lib64). Anyhow, sorry for the delay here. I have checked in a patch that I think fixes this bug. It should be available in tomorrow's rawhide. Can you test and confirm it's fixed? You can also find the build at: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1272152
Verified fixed with fontforge-20090224-2.fc11.i586 (on 32 bit platform).