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

[Jindrich Novy]

Hi Khaled,

thanks for noticing. Attaching the missing empty.ttf.

Regards,
Jindrich

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 12:03:14PM +0200, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> 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 -----
> > 
> > -- 
> > Jindrich Novy <jnovy at redhat.com>   http://people.redhat.com/jnovy/
> > Kdo víno má a nepije, kdo hrozny má a nejí je, kdo ženu má a nelíbá,
> > kdo zábavě se vyhýbá, na toho vemte bič a hůl, to není člověk, to je vůl.
> > --- 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

-- 
Jindrich Novy <jnovy at redhat.com>   http://people.redhat.com/jnovy/
Kdo víno má a nepije, kdo hrozny má a nejí je, kdo ženu má a nelíbá,
kdo zábavě se vyhýbá, na toho vemte bič a hůl, to není člověk, to je vůl.
--- Jan Werich
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