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Re: lilypond *does* need metafont
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Reinhold Kainhofer |
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Re: lilypond *does* need metafont |
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Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:59:29 +0200 |
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Am Dienstag, 26. August 2008 schrieb Werner LEMBERG:
> > > lilypond needs metapost, not metafont, for building the fonts! The
> > > binary is normally called `mpost' or `mp'.
> >
> > Are you sure about this?
>
> Ah, my mistake. I meant `needs both metapost and metafont', sorry.
Ah, I see the metafont-rules.make contains a hidden dependency to mpost
through mf2pt1! Unfortunately, we don't check for existence of mpost in our
configure file... So lilypond will configure correctly, but still fail to
build if mpost is not installed...
Cheers,
Reinhold
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Re: lilypond does *not* need metafont, Reinhold Kainhofer, 2008/08/26