Re: lilypond *does* need metafont

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

Am Dienstag, 26. August 2008 schrieb Werner LEMBERG:
> > > lilypond needs metapost, not metafont, for building the fonts!  The
> > > binary is normally called `mpost' or `mp'.
> >
> > Are you sure about this?
>
> Ah, my mistake.  I meant `needs both metapost and metafont', sorry.

Ah, I see the metafont-rules.make contains a hidden dependency to mpost 
through mf2pt1! Unfortunately, we don't check for existence of mpost in our 
configure file... So lilypond will configure correctly, but still fail to 
build if mpost is not installed...

Cheers,
Reinhold

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