Minetest segfaults on start if png and xml fonts files are removed from the fonts folder.

[Megaf]

When removing the png and xml files from the fonts folder and compiling with these settings, -DRUN_IN_PLACE=0 -DBUILD_SERVER=0 -DUSE_FREETYPE=0 -DENABLE_FREETYPE=0, Minetest will segfault on start.

reglnx@ToshSAM:~/Games/MinetestFontsRedux$ bin/minetest 
WARNING: system-wide share not found at "/usr/local/share/minetest"
WARNING: system-wide share not found at "/home/reglnx/Games/MinetestFontsRedux/bin/../share/minetest"
WARNING: system-wide share found at "/home/reglnx/Games/MinetestFontsRedux/bin/.."
2015-03-24 17:37:25: ERROR[main]: Subgame specified in default_game [minetest] is invalid.
Irrlicht log: Irrlicht Engine version 1.8.1
Irrlicht log: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt7-1 (2015-03-01) x86_64
Irrlicht log: Using renderer: OpenGL 3.0
Irrlicht log: Gallium 0.4 on AMD MULLINS: X.Org
Irrlicht log: OpenGL driver version is 1.2 or better.
Irrlicht log: GLSL version: 1.3
2015-03-24 17:37:25: ERROR[main]: FontEngine: Default font file: 
2015-03-24 17:37:25: ERROR[main]:   "/home/reglnx/Games/MinetestFontsRedux/bin/../fonts/lucida_sans"
2015-03-24 17:37:25: ERROR[main]:   required for current screen configuration was not found or was invalid file format.
2015-03-24 17:37:25: ERROR[main]:   Using irrlicht default font.
Segmentation fault

It should still work, but with Irrlicht's default font.

If I compile it with -DRUN_IN_PLACE=0 -DBUILD_SERVER=0 -DUSE_FREETYPE=1 -DENABLE_FREETYPE=1 it will work just as it supposed to.

reglnx@ToshSAM:~/Games/MinetestFontsRedux$ bin/minetest 
WARNING: system-wide share not found at "/usr/local/share/minetest"
WARNING: system-wide share not found at "/home/reglnx/Games/MinetestFontsRedux/bin/../share/minetest"
WARNING: system-wide share found at "/home/reglnx/Games/MinetestFontsRedux/bin/.."
2015-03-24 17:44:43: ERROR[main]: Subgame specified in default_game [minetest] is invalid.
Irrlicht log: Irrlicht Engine version 1.8.1
Irrlicht log: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt7-1 (2015-03-01) x86_64
Irrlicht log: Using renderer: OpenGL 3.0
Irrlicht log: Gallium 0.4 on AMD MULLINS: X.Org
Irrlicht log: OpenGL driver version is 1.2 or better.
Irrlicht log: GLSL version: 1.3
2015-03-24 17:44:48: ERROR[main]: Provided world path doesn't exist: /home/reglnx/.minetest/worlds/world

To reproduce, just rm minetest/fonts/*xml and rm minetest/fonts/*png

[ShadowNinja]

This fixes it, but the resulting font doesn't scale: http://ix.io/laj

[paramat]

If you're removing necessary files, is it a bug? Can this be closed?

[rubenwardy]

It should fail gracefully with an error, or use irrlicht's inbuilt default font

[ShadowNinja]

They're necessary now, but they don't really have to be necessary -- all it takes is that one line change to make them optional.

[ShadowNinja]

Oops.

[Megaf]

This was fixed long ago I think. Mt will no longer cras IF it is compiled with freetype enabled.