Re: Building from git

[Bruno Victal]

Hi,

On 2023-09-07 13:06, Simon Tournier wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sat, 02 Sep 2023 at 11:03, Nicolas Débonnaire <n.debonnaire@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> 
>> guix shell -D guix --pure
>> ./bootstrap
>> ./configure --localstatedir=/var --syscondir=/etc
>> make
> 
> [...]
> 
>> Error: fontconfig:Didn't find expected font family. Perhaps URW Type 1
>> fonts need installing?
> 
> Hum, weird.  That’s because the documentation seems failing, I guess.
> 
> Could you share which Git commit you are building?  And using which Guix
> revision, before guix shell, what is the output of “guix describe“?

I've recently documented this fontconfig issue with URW fonts, see
<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/65741>.


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Cheers,
Bruno.