[tex-live] mkluatexfontdb segfaults when scanning empty.ttf

[Khaled Hosny]

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 09:31:33AM +0200, Jindrich Novy wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm forwarding this bug report message to you.
> 
> Hope that helps,
> Jindrich
> 
> ----- Forwarded message from Martin Gieseking <martin.gieseking at uos.de> -----
> 
> Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 12:25:14 +0200
> From: Martin Gieseking <martin.gieseking at uos.de>
> To: jnovy at redhat.com
> Subject: mkluatexfontdb segfaults when scanning empty.ttf
> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100806 Fedora/3.1.2-1.fc13 Thunderbird/3.1.2
> 
> Hi Jindrich,
> 
> since TeX Live 2010 isn't officially added to Fedora yet, I don't file
> a Bugzilla ticket but bother you directly. :)
> 
> When the attached TrueType font "empty.ttf" is present in one of the
> scanned font directories, the LuaTeX utility "mkluatexfontdb" crashes
> with a segfault (using the latest TeX Live 2010 build from your yum
> repo). This empty font is obviously an exotic case but it's a valid
> TTF file that should be handled properly.
> 
> Maybe you can forward this issue to the proper TeX Live or LuaTeX
> developers.
> 
> Regards,
> Martin
> 
> 
> 
> ----- End forwarded message -----
> 
> -- 
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> --- Jan Werich

Looks like the font was lost during forward, without the font there is
little one can do.

Regards,
 Khaled

-- 
 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer