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.
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@ -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 @@ (define-public font-lato
(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 @@ (define-public font-gnu-freefont
(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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@ -60,7 +60,9 @@ (define-module (gnu packages fontutils)
#:use-module (guix build-system cmake)
#:use-module (guix build-system gnu)
#:use-module (guix build-system python)
#:use-module (guix build-system meson))
#:use-module (guix build-system meson)
#:use-module (guix utils)
#:use-module (srfi srfi-1))
(define-public freetype
(package
@ -640,6 +642,31 @@ (define-public fontforge
(license license:gpl3+)
(home-page "https://fontforge.github.io")))
;; This is the last version that supports Python 2, which is needed for
;; GNU FreeFont. Remove once no longer required.
(define-public fontforge-20190801
(package
(inherit fontforge)
(version "20190801")
(source (origin
(method url-fetch)
(uri (string-append
"https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/releases/download/"
version "/fontforge-" version ".tar.gz"))
(sha256
(base32 "0lh8yx01asbzxm6car5cfi64njh5p4lxc7iv8dldr5rwg357a86r"))))
(build-system gnu-build-system)
(arguments
(substitute-keyword-arguments (package-arguments fontforge)
((#:configure-flags _)
''())
((#:phases phases)
`(modify-phases ,phases
(delete 'do-not-override-RPATH)))))
(inputs
`(("python" ,python-2)
,@(alist-delete "python" (package-inputs fontforge))))))
(define-public python2-ufolib
(package
(name "python2-ufolib")