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 # ttfautohint
 
+ttfautohint provides a 99% automated hinting process and a platform for finely hand-hinting the last 1%. It is ideal for web fonts and supports many scripts: Latin, Greek, Arabic, Devanagari, Hebrew, Khmer, Myanmar, Thai, and many more.
+
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+Name:          ttfautohint
+Version:       1.8.3
+Release:       1mamba
+Summary:       Provides a 99% automated hinting process and a platform for finely hand-hinting the last 1%
+Group:         Applications/Publishing
+Vendor:        openmamba
+Distribution:  openmamba
+Packager:      Silvan Calarco <silvan.calarco@mambasoft.it>
+URL:           https://www.freetype.org/ttfautohint
+Source:        https://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/freetype/ttfautohint-%{version}.tar.gz
+License:       GPL
+## AUTOBUILDREQ-BEGIN
+BuildRequires: glibc-devel
+BuildRequires: ldconfig
+BuildRequires: libGL-devel
+BuildRequires: libbzip2-devel
+BuildRequires: libfreetype-devel
+BuildRequires: libgcc
+BuildRequires: libglib-devel
+BuildRequires: libgraphite2-devel
+BuildRequires: libharfbuzz-devel
+BuildRequires: libpcre-devel
+BuildRequires: libpng-devel
+BuildRequires: libqt5-devel
+BuildRequires: libstdc++6-devel
+BuildRequires: libz-devel
+## AUTOBUILDREQ-END
+Requires:      lib%{name} = %{?epoch:%epoch:}%{version}-%{release}
+BuildRoot:     %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-root
+
+%description
+ttfautohint provides a 99% automated hinting process and a platform for finely hand-hinting the last 1%. It is ideal for web fonts and supports many scripts: Latin, Greek, Arabic, Devanagari, Hebrew, Khmer, Myanmar, Thai, and many more.
+
+%package -n lib%{name}
+Group:         System/Libraries
+Summary:       Shared libraries for %{name}
+
+%description -n lib%{name}
+This package contains shared libraries for %{name}.
+
+%package -n lib%{name}-devel
+Group:         Development/Libraries
+Summary:       Development files for %{name}
+Requires:      lib%{name} = %{?epoch:%epoch:}%{version}-%{release}
+Requires:      pkg-config
+
+%description -n lib%{name}-devel
+This package contains libraries and header files for developing applications that use %{name}.
+
+
+%debug_package
+
+%prep
+%setup -q
+
+%build
+%configure
+%make
+
+%install
+[ "%{buildroot}" != / ] && rm -rf "%{buildroot}"
+%makeinstall
+
+%clean
+[ "%{buildroot}" != / ] && rm -rf "%{buildroot}"
+
+%post -n lib%{name} -p /sbin/ldconfig
+%postun -n lib%{name} -p /sbin/ldconfig
+
+%files
+%defattr(-,root,root)
+%{_bindir}/ttfautohint
+%{_bindir}/ttfautohintGUI
+
+%files -n lib%{name}
+%defattr(-,root,root)
+%{_libdir}/libttfautohint.so.*
+%doc AUTHORS COPYING THANKS
+
+%files -n lib%{name}-devel
+%defattr(-,root,root)
+%{_includedir}/ttfautohint-coverages.h
+%{_includedir}/ttfautohint-errors.h
+%{_includedir}/ttfautohint-scripts.h
+%{_includedir}/ttfautohint.h
+%{_libdir}/libttfautohint.a
+%{_libdir}/libttfautohint.la
+%{_libdir}/libttfautohint.so
+%{_libdir}/pkgconfig/ttfautohint.pc
+%doc ChangeLog NEWS README TODO
+
+%changelog
+* Sat Mar 07 2020 Silvan Calarco <silvan.calarco@mambasoft.it> 1.8.3-1mamba
+- package created using the webbuild interface