Latest fontforge (20170731) segfaults when running ricty_generator

[aikinai]

I'm getting this error when I try to install Ricty today:

./ricty_generator-4.1.0.sh: line 1042: 67291 Segmentation fault: 11  $fontforge_command -script ${tmpdir}/${ricty_generator} 2> $redirection_stderr

It seems to be a bug in the latest Fontforge, so I manually reverted to the previous version of Fontforge with brew edit fontforge (just copied and pasted the old formula). It's very hacky and I don't know if it's even possible to add this officially to the Ricty formula, but I just wanted to share the hacky solution here in case other people run into the same issue.

[sanemat]

Segmentation fault 😿
Thank you for sharing.

[equal-l2]

This issue occurs only with Homebrew fontforge.
In other word, you can successfully build with official build of fontforge.

[equal-l2]

The issue seems to have been solved by Homebrew/homebrew-core#17845.
Feel free to reopen if it still occurs.