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Re: Errors when doing 'make' for the first time when building the fonts
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Errors when doing 'make' for the first time when building the fonts |
Date: |
Sat, 08 Oct 2011 11:22:59 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> writes:
>>> and the version string contains `-D' or `-LD', e.g.
>>>
>>> Executable based on sources from 23:14 GMT 25-Feb-2011-ML-TtfDb-D.
>>> ^^
>>
>> Unfortunately, Ubuntu Maverick (11.04) only ships a version from 2010:
>>
>> address@hidden:~$ fontforge --version
>> Copyright (c) 2000-2010 by George Williams.
>> Executable based on sources from 11:21 GMT 1-May-2010.
>
> At that time the additional configuration flags aren't shown in the
> version string of FontForge; this feature has been added later to the
> source code. In other words, you have to look up Ubuntu's compilation
> script to find out whether they are using --enable-double or not.
The upcoming Oneiric (11.10) states
fontforge --version
Copyright (c) 2000-2011 by George Williams.
Executable based on sources from 13:48 GMT 22-Feb-2011-ML.
Library based on sources from 13:48 GMT 22-Feb-2011.
fontforge 20110222
libfontforge 20110222-ML
So you better file a problem report if you want this changed. Not
likely for Oneiric, but you may be lucky for 12.04.
--
David Kastrup
Re: Errors when doing 'make' for the first time when building the fonts, Graham Percival, 2011/10/08