bug#40819: closed ([core-updates] font-gnu-freefont fails to build)

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: [core-updates] font-gnu-freefont fails to build Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 10:33:27 -0400 (EDT) User-agent: Alpine 2.20 (DEB 67 2015-01-07)

Hi Guix,

On the current core-updates branch, font-gnu-freefont fails to build with the attatched build log.

Based on the messages about syntax errors, it looks like gnu-freefont is not compatible with python3, and instead needs python2.

However, we already try to do this in the package definition:

;; replace python 3 with python 2
;; python 3 support commits aren't yet released in 20120503
;; so freefont needs python 2 support in fontforge
(native-inputs `(("fontforge" ,(package (inherit fontforge)
                                 (inputs `(("python-2" ,python-2)
                                 ,@(package-inputs fontforge)))))))


Best,
Jack

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Re: bug#40819: [core-updates] font-gnu-freefont fails to build Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 18:20:34 +0200 User-agent: Notmuch/0.29.3 (https://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/26.3 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)

Jack Hill <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Guix,
>
> On the current core-updates branch, font-gnu-freefont fails to build with 
> the attatched build log.
>
> Based on the messages about syntax errors, it looks like gnu-freefont is 
> not compatible with python3, and instead needs python2.

A new version of GNU FreeFont that supports Python 3 is slated for later
this year.  Meanwhile I fixed this by providing an older FontForge in
commit 4affa9182d93c77505c40e95964b8ab9d436298b.

Thanks!

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