Re: Lyrics appear in "sans" on linux-64

[David Kastrup]

Mark Polesky <address@hidden> writes:

> Werner Lemberg wrote:
>> Can you show us the lines in your `make.log' file directly
>> after the calls to the `pfx2ttf.fontforge' script?  Maybe
>> there is some hint which shows what's going on.
>
> Curiously, no.  There is no call to that function in my
> make.log file.  I did:
>
> make all &> make.log
>
> Am I using the wrong redirection operator?

Depends on your shell.  Bash understands both &> and >&.  The C shell
(where the construct originated) just supports >& but since nobody uses
a C shell anymore who would ask "Am I using the wrong redirection
operator?", this is mostly of historical relevance for guessing what
modern shells might do.  Dash does not support either: calling the above
would run make all in background, in parallel with turning make.log into
an empty file.

If you want to be on the safe side, write

make all >make.log 2>&1

since this will work on all shells known to me.

-- 
David Kastrup