Re: Build requires t1asm

[John Mandereau]

On 2008/07/15 23:00 +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > > I've just built 2.11.52.  I needed t1asm, [...]
> >
> > In fact the build also requires programs related to Metafont
> > (mf-nowin and metapost, I believe).
> 
> Only metapost.
> 
> I can only repeat that IMHO it would be best to distribute the final
> fonts to reduce the dependencies.

Let's do this if there is no objection.  This certainly involves calling
'make -C mf' at the beginning of 'make dist', and packing generated
fonts into the tarball.  I've added this to my to-do list for this
summer (I like hacking makefiles, so that's not a problem :-).

Cheers,
John