bug#36632: ungoogled-chromium needs font-gnu-freefont-ttf

bug#36632: ungoogled-chromium needs font-gnu-freefont-ttf

[Martin Becze]

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ungoogled-chromium will crash until font-gnu-freefont-ttf is installed.



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bug#36632: [Patch] add font-gnu-freefont-ttf propagated-inputs

[mjbecze]

hi this fixes bug 36632

---
 gnu/packages/chromium.scm | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/gnu/packages/chromium.scm b/gnu/packages/chromium.scm
index d072fc58ad..04ce780be0 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/chromium.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/chromium.scm
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
   #:use-module (gnu packages compression)
   #:use-module (gnu packages cups)
   #:use-module (gnu packages curl)
+  #:use-module (gnu packages fonts)
   #:use-module (gnu packages fontutils)
   #:use-module (gnu packages freedesktop)
   #:use-module (gnu packages gcc)
@@ -763,6 +764,8 @@ from forcing GEXP-PROMISE."
        ("udev" ,eudev)
        ("valgrind" ,valgrind)
        ("vulkan-headers" ,vulkan-headers)))
+    (propagated-inputs
+      `(("font-gnu-freefont-ttf" ,font-gnu-freefont-ttf)))
 
     ;; Building Chromium takes ... a very long time.  On a single core,
a busy
     ;; mid-end x86 system may need more than 24 hours to complete the
build.
-- 
2.22.0

bug#36632: [Patch] add font-gnu-freefont-ttf propagated-inputs

[mjbecze]

On 2019-07-29 13:59, mjbecze@riseup.net wrote:
> hi this fixes bug 36632
> 
> ---
>  gnu/packages/chromium.scm | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/gnu/packages/chromium.scm b/gnu/packages/chromium.scm
> index d072fc58ad..04ce780be0 100644
> --- a/gnu/packages/chromium.scm
> +++ b/gnu/packages/chromium.scm
> @@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
>    #:use-module (gnu packages compression)
>    #:use-module (gnu packages cups)
>    #:use-module (gnu packages curl)
> +  #:use-module (gnu packages fonts)
>    #:use-module (gnu packages fontutils)
>    #:use-module (gnu packages freedesktop)
>    #:use-module (gnu packages gcc)
> @@ -763,6 +764,8 @@ from forcing GEXP-PROMISE."
>         ("udev" ,eudev)
>         ("valgrind" ,valgrind)
>         ("vulkan-headers" ,vulkan-headers)))
> +    (propagated-inputs
> +      `(("font-gnu-freefont-ttf" ,font-gnu-freefont-ttf)))
>  
>      ;; Building Chromium takes ... a very long time.  On a single core,
> a busy
>      ;; mid-end x86 system may need more than 24 hours to complete the
> build.


bump bump :)

bug#36632: (no subject)

[Martin Becze]

bump :)

bug#36632: ungoogled-chromium needs font-gnu-freefont-ttf

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Hi Martin,

> ungoogled-chromium will crash until font-gnu-freefont-ttf is installed.

Thank you for reporting this problem and proposing a patch.

I’d prefer not to propagate any fonts.  Do you happen to know what the
mechanism underlying the fix is?  Why does this fix the problem?  Why
does it crash in the first place?

Is this at all related to a stale font cache, perhaps?

-- 
Ricardo

bug#36632: ungoogled-chromium needs font-gnu-freefont-ttf

[Martin Becze]

On 2019-08-05 15:36, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> Hi Martin,
> 
>> ungoogled-chromium will crash until font-gnu-freefont-ttf is installed.
> 
> Thank you for reporting this problem and proposing a patch.
> 
> I’d prefer not to propagate any fonts.  Do you happen to know what the
> mechanism underlying the fix is?  Why does this fix the problem?  Why
> does it crash in the first place?
> 
> Is this at all related to a stale font cache, perhaps?

So i got a chance to dig into this a bit. chromium needs a ttf font and
there are no fonts installed yet, so defaintly not a stale cache issue.
Chrome is crashing here
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/ui/gfx/platform_font_skia.cc#97
Its using fontconfig i think. I have no idea how to get chromium to read
fonts from a custom path.

bug#36632: ungoogled-chromium needs font-gnu-freefont-ttf

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Hi Martin,

> So i got a chance to dig into this a bit. chromium needs a ttf font and
> there are no fonts installed yet, so defaintly not a stale cache issue.
> Chrome is crashing here
> https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/ui/gfx/platform_font_skia.cc#97
> Its using fontconfig i think. I have no idea how to get chromium to read
> fonts from a custom path.

Can we arrange for a default font to be returned by fontconfig?  Perhaps
the fix is not needed in Chromium but in fontconfig or our profile hooks?

-- 
Ricardo