Erroneus error message or what?

[Villum Sejersen]

For information: I compile both lilypond-dev and fontforge from git
sources, situated in /usr/local/src and the executables in
/usr/local/bin/ - (in debian testing, not ubuntu).

Lately, building lilypond, I have occationally encountered a strange
error-massage:

ERROR: Please install required programs:  /usr/local/bin/fontforge >=
20110222 (installed: 3ec845c4fe718af4908ce2dc25b66d0594930)

BUT: There IS installed a version of fontforge (with the quoted hash, at
the specified location, and it is definitely newer than 2011:

address@hidden:/usr/local/src/fontforge# fontforge --version
Copyright (c) 2000-2014 by George Williams. See AUTHORS for Contributors.
 License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
 with many parts BSD <http://fontforge.org/license.html>. Please read
LICENSE.
 Based on sources from 16:45 CET  1-Nov-2014-ML-D.
 Based on source from git with
hash:e3ec845c4fe718af4908ce2dc25b66d0594930cc
fontforge 16:45 CET  1-Nov-2014
libfontforge 20141101

Interestingly; if I ignore the error message, and just continue
building, using the error-message-prone version of fontforge, lilypond
compiles and installs without errors.

In the long run this is an insecure situation. Can it be remedied?

--
yours,
Villum Sejersen
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