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bug#40819: [core-updates] font-gnu-freefont fails to build
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Marius Bakke |
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bug#40819: [core-updates] font-gnu-freefont fails to build |
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Fri, 24 Apr 2020 18:20:34 +0200 |
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Jack Hill <address@hidden> writes:
> Hi Guix,
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> On the current core-updates branch, font-gnu-freefont fails to build with
> the attatched build log.
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> Based on the messages about syntax errors, it looks like gnu-freefont is
> not compatible with python3, and instead needs python2.
A new version of GNU FreeFont that supports Python 3 is slated for later
this year. Meanwhile I fixed this by providing an older FontForge in
commit 4affa9182d93c77505c40e95964b8ab9d436298b.
Thanks!
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