Re: GUB help needed - fontforge error

[Jonas Hahnfeld]

Am Montag, den 27.04.2020, 09:41 +0200 schrieb Jonas Hahnfeld:
> To set some context: You're trying to release 2.21.1 from the
> release/unstable branch? I'd have expected an announcement that a new
> release is imminent to lilypond-devel beforehand, so others could have
> stopped pushing to staging / master and complicating the release.
> 
> Am Montag, den 27.04.2020, 07:46 +0100 schrieb Phil Holmes:
> > I am currently getting this error when trying to build GUB:
> > 
> > Tail of target/tools/log/fontforge.log >>>>>>>>
> > checking Build with LibUniNamesList Unicode support?... configure: error: in
> > `/home/gub/NewGub/gub/target/tools/build/fontforge-20190801':
> > configure: error: You may provide option `--without-libuninameslist` to
> > build without this recommended feature
> > See `config.log' for more details
> > Command barfed: cd
> > /home/gub/NewGub/gub/target/tools/build/fontforge-20190801 && chmod +x
> > /home/gub/NewGub/gub/target/tools/src/fontforge-20190801/configure && sh
> > /home/gub/NewGub/gub/target/tools/src/fontforge-20190801/configure 
> > --prefix=/home/gub/NewGub/gub/target/tools/root/usr
> > --enable-shared --enable-static --disable-silent-rules --without-cairo 
> > --without-x
> > --enable-python-scripting=3
> > CFLAGS=-I/home/gub/NewGub/gub/target/tools/root/usr/include
> > LDFLAGS='-L/home/gub/NewGub/gub/target/tools/root/usr/lib -Wl,-rpath 
> > -Wl,\$$ORIGIN/../lib
> > -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/home/gub/NewGub/gub/target/tools/root/usr/lib '
> > 
> > Should I just add the "--without-libuninameslist" option to the fontforge 
> > command line in GUB?
> 
> Probably Werner knows better what libuninameslist is used for.
> Alternatively we could go back to using FontForge 20190413 -- according
> to the release notes, 20190801 was the first version to require the
> "new" dependency.

Well, that library is *so* easy to build that it certainly can't hurt
to add it: https://github.com/gperciva/gub/pull/73

Please give it a try!

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