Unable to load fonts when linking with lld
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Description
Currently building a game with amethyst.rs, and any time I attempt to use the lld linker to speed up my iteration, I get the following error trying to load fonts:
Message("unknown variant TTF, there are no variants")
Loading no fonts explicitly -- and trying to fallback to the system default yields a spew of errors like the following, before failing to load any fonts:
"/etc/fonts/fonts.conf", line 6: invalid attribute 'translate'...
A small bit of investigation revealed this may be due to the this package -- or a dependency -- using a bundled, incompatible fontconfig instead of the system's.
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Research direction
Start by reproducing the font-loading failure when building with the lld linker, then inspect the package and its dependencies for the bundled fontconfig suspected in the report. Done means fonts load successfully with lld, including the system-default fallback, without the TTF or fontconfig parsing errors.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100