From 4affa9182d93c77505c40e95964b8ab9d436298b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 18:19:02 +0200
Subject: gnu: font-gnu-freefont: Build with an older version of FontForge.

Fixes <https://bugs.gnu.org/40819>.
Reported by Jack Hill <jackhill@jackhill.us>.

* gnu/packages/fontutils.scm (fontforge-20190801): New public variable.
* gnu/packages/fonts.scm (font-gnu-freefont)[native-inputs]: Change from
inherited FontForge variant to FONTFORGE-20190801.
---
 gnu/packages/fonts.scm | 12 +++++-------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

(limited to 'gnu/packages/fonts.scm')

diff --git a/gnu/packages/fonts.scm b/gnu/packages/fonts.scm
index 21423baefd..6e9b080299 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/fonts.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/fonts.scm
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 ;;; Copyright © 2016 Eric Bavier <bavier@member.fsf.org>
 ;;; Copyright © 2016 Dmitry Nikolaev <cameltheman@gmail.com>
 ;;; Copyright © 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
-;;; Copyright © 2016 Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
+;;; Copyright © 2016, 2020 Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
 ;;; Copyright © 2016 Toni Reina <areina@riseup.net>
 ;;; Copyright © 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
 ;;; Copyright © 2017 José Miguel Sánchez García <jmi2k@openmailbox.com>
@@ -236,6 +236,8 @@ The Lato 2.010 family supports more than 100 Latin-based languages, over
 (define-public font-gnu-freefont
   (package
     (name "font-gnu-freefont")
+    ;; Note: Remove the special FontForge input and package once the 2020
+    ;; release is out.
     (version "20120503")
     (source (origin
              (method url-fetch)
@@ -289,12 +291,8 @@ The Lato 2.010 family supports more than 100 Latin-based languages, over
                                    (lambda (file) (string-suffix? "woff" file))
                                    (find-files "." "")))))))
        #:test-target "tests"))
-    ;; replace python 3 with python 2
-    ;; python 3 support commits aren't yet released in 20120503
-    ;; so freefont needs python 2 support in fontforge
-    (native-inputs `(("fontforge" ,(package (inherit fontforge)
-                                     (inputs `(("python-2" ,python-2)
-                                     ,@(package-inputs fontforge)))))))
+    ;; FreeFont anno 2012 requires a FontForge built with Python 2.
+    (native-inputs `(("fontforge" ,fontforge-20190801)))
     (home-page "https://www.gnu.org/software/freefont/")
     (synopsis "Unicode-encoded outline fonts")
     (description
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