Re: SUSE 9.3 and fontforge

[Tapio Tuovila]

Suzanne Blatt kirjoitti:
> Hello,
> I'm trying to build Lilypond 2.5 as the one that came with SUSE 9.3 
> doesn't work.  My problem is fontforge.  The 'old' fontforge that came 
> with SUSE has been uninstalled, I found and downloaded the 'new' 
> fontforge from the web but I cannot seem to get the compilers to find 
> it - so my compiling results in an error of 'no fontforge'.   Where 
> should I be compiling fontforge on my machine so it will be seen? and 
> how do I do this?  I think it should go in /usr/bin but how can I get 
> it there?
> Thanks,
> Suzie
Hi,
you could go to http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/index.html#source then 
download the sources (and needed dependencies, if missing),
then just normally <./configure, make, make install>. By default "make 
install" installs fontforge in /usr/local/bin; if you want it to go to 
/usr/bin then you should do ./configure --prefix=/usr/bin.

- Then again, why not try Lilypond 2.6.3 (or even 2.7.10) instead? Those 
also build smoothly on SuSE 9.3

best wishes
Tapio