Re: Help Installing Lilypond

[Michał Dwużnik]

On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 08:38:50 +0000, Alberto Simões
<address@hidden> wrote:

> I'm compiling lilypond. Yes. I know. I'm crazy. But there is no
> slackware package for 2.4.x

Use gentoo, you will compile anyway ;)

>
> Now, installing ec-fonts-mftraced-1.0.9 first.
>
> Everything is fine, until mftrace is called:
>
> TEXMF= mftrace --simplify --potrace ecbx10
> mftrace 1.1.2
> Font `ecbx10'...
> Using encoding file: `/usr/share/texmf/dvips/base/tex256.enc'
> Running Metafont...
> Tracing bitmaps... [0Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "/usr/local/bin/mftrace", line 1255, in ?
>      magnification, fontinfo)
>    File "/usr/local/bin/mftrace", line 632, in trace_font
>      success = trace_one ("char.pbm", '%s-%d' % (gf_fontname, a))
>    File "/usr/local/bin/mftrace", line 344, in trace_one
>      status = system (trace_command (pbmfile, ''), 1)
> TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not callable
> make: *** [pfa/ecbx10.pfa] Error 1
>
> Ideas?
>
Look closely at the messages -> the error comes from mftrace,
so a good guess would be to upgrade (or sometimes downgrade)
mftrace. In my case that helped under gentoo, but
I don't remember the exact version numbers of the packages involved.

Regards
Michal