[Ipe-discuss] Can't run Ipe 7.2.7 AppImage with fontconfig 2.13.0

[Otfried Cheong]

The recipe for Ipe's appimage is here:

https://github.com/otfried/ipe-tools/tree/master/appimage

It includes freetype, but not fontconfig, so when these diverge too much, I guess such a problem can be expected.

We can try to rebuild the appimage to include fontconfig - or perhaps without including freetype (which, I suspect, is a standard feature on any Linux system).

I won't have time for this myself before August, unfortunately.

Cheers,
  Otfried


On Fri, May 11, 2018, at 17:14, Mathias Rav via Ipe-discuss wrote:
> When I run ipe-7.2.7-x86_64.AppImage I get the error:
> 
> ipe: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1: undefined symbol: 
> FT_Done_MM_Var
> 
> I upgraded fontconfig 2.12.6+5+g665584a-1 -> 2.13.0+10+g58f5285-1
> on 2018-04-02. Today when I wanted to start Ipe I got the message above.
> 
> After a bit of research [1] [2] it looks like other people get the same
> error with other programs/AppImages that bundle libfreetype or libz.
> 
> [1] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/57948
> [2] https://gist.github.com/nemanjan00/dca98f1
> 
> Does Ipe bundle either of those libraries in its AppImage? Based on [2]
> I tried to run the Ipe AppImage with --appimage-extract but that flag is
> not recognized. Is there a good way of debugging AppImage startup
> problems?
> 
> I'll compile Ipe from source for now, but I'd rather use the AppImage
> if possible.
> 
> Best regards,
> Mathias Rav
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