problems building lilypond-2.4.1

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> Any suggestions how to get around this...
> 
> mftrace --encoding feta-din10.enc -I ./out/ --pfa --simplify feta-din10
> sh: potrace: command not found
> mftrace 1.0.34
> Font `feta-din10'...
> Using encoding file: `./out/feta-din10.enc'
> Running Metafont...
> Tracing bitmaps... [33][102][109][112][114][115][122]
> Assembling font to `feta-din10.pfa'... 
> Simplifying font... Copyright (c) 2000-2004 by George Williams.
>  Executable based on sources from 07:34 12-Oct-2004.
> FontForge used to be named PfaEdit.
> error: fontforge: command exited with value 11
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/mftrace", line 1188, in ?
>     cleanup_font (basename + '.pfa')
>   File "/usr/bin/mftrace", line 841, in cleanup_font
>     system ("%s -script simplify.pe %s %s" % (fontforge_cmd, file, tfmfile))
>   File "/usr/bin/mftrace", line 246, in system
>     error (msg)
>   File "/usr/bin/mftrace", line 137, in error
>     raise _ ("Exiting ... ")
> Exiting ... 
> make[1]: *** [out/feta-din10.pfa] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/y/src/lilypond-2.4.1/mf'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> 

Upgrade FontForge, it is a bug in fontforge.

> I tried doing it this way but that didn't work either...
> 
>  $ make -C mf get-pfa
> make: Entering directory `/y/src/lilypond-2.4.1/mf'
> wget  --passive-ftp -P ./out 
> http://lilypond.org/download/binaries/Fedora-1/lilypond-2.4.1-1.i386.rpm
> --14:22:15--  
> http://lilypond.org/download/binaries/Fedora-1/lilypond-2.4.1-1.i386.rpm
>            => `./out/lilypond-2.4.1-1.i386.rpm'
> Resolving lilypond.org... done.
> Connecting to lilypond.org[62.250.7.116]:80... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
> 14:22:20 ERROR 404: Not Found.
> 
> make: *** [out/lilypond-2.4.1-1.i386.rpm] Error 1
> make: Leaving directory `/y/src/lilypond-2.4.1/mf'

Thanks for the report; the linhk should say

  Fedora-3

iso.

  Fedora-1

You can change that by hand in mf/GNUmakefile.



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