Re: Simplify font building. (issue 5695061)

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 8:06 PM, Joe Neeman <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 8:23 AM, Graham Percival <address@hidden>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 03:57:55PM +0000, address@hidden wrote:
>> > This is good, I now get the error message right away when running
>> > configure. No problem with the patch after installing the required
>> > package. Do lilydev and gub already include the fontforge python
>> > package?
>>
>> No, and adding this to GUB will be particularly challenging.  I'm
>> afraid that this will probably postpone the patch indefinitely.
>> :(
>
>
> Why would it be particularly challenging? In fact, since GUB builds
> fontforge, the python bindings may already be included (I'm attempting to
> check this now). It's just that debian-like distros feel the need to
> separate each package into 5 pieces...

It would be cleaner to change to build fontforge as a python extension
only, then we don't need to worry about graphic toolkits and such.

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