[ft-devel] call for 64-bit linux FontVal testers/users (Re: call for mac FontVal testers.)

[Hin-Tak Leung]

Hi,

I have managed to make the whole thing into one binary,
FontVal-2.1.1-py-ubuntu-14.04-x64.tgz ( and the gpg signature 
FontVal-2.1.1-py-ubuntu-14.04-x64.tgz.sig )
https://sourceforge.net/projects/hp-pxl-jetready/files/Microsoft%20Font%20Validator/misc/

A typical usage for the full test is
./FontValidator-ubuntu-14.04-x64 -file <fontfile> +raster-tests -all-tables  
-stdout

./FontValidator-ubuntu-14.04-x64
on its own gives a usage summary.

As the name implies, it targets Ubuntu 14.04, but it does work on fedora 26 and 
perhaps most recent 64-bit linux too.

as Ubuntu ships "gcc (Ubuntu 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04.3) 4.8.4", a very small part 
of the full tests is missing at the moment.
( see https://github.com/HinTak/Font-Validator/blob/master/Release-Notes )
This affects some very pathologically broken and visibly broken fonts so far 
only seen from being artificially created by Google's oss-fuzz,
so for most normal usage people won't not notice it is missing.

Unless I hear anything bad about it or the mac os x binaries, I shall tag for 
2.1.1. 

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On Mon, 28/8/17, Hin-Tak Leung <address@hidden> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [ft-devel] call for mac FontVal testers.
 To: address@hidden, "chris" <address@hidden>, address@hidden, "Cosimo Lupo 
<address@hidden> Dave Crossland" <address@hidden>
 Date: Monday, 28 August, 2017, 2:50

<snipped>
 The good news is I think I can probably
 "stuff everything in the binary" and make a linux binary for
 5-year-old ubuntu
 with full functionality i.e. almost as
 if it is statically linked to a customizd freetype (though
 it is not technically done that way).