Re: lilypond does not compile: fontforge version not detected

[Masamichi HOSODA]

> i attempted to install lilypond-9999 gentoo ebuild but it fails because it 
> does not detect fontforge version correctly:
> 
> # ./configure
> ...
> configure: creating ./config.status
> config.status: creating config.make
> config.status: creating config.hh
> configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --with-ncsb-dir
> 
> WARNING: Please consider installing optional programs or files:  dblatex 
> pdflatex epsf.tex lh CTAN package (texlive-lang-cyrillic or texlive-texmf-
> fonts)
> 
> ERROR: Please install required programs:  /usr/bin/fontforge >= 20110222 
> (installed: 99da6faa1ea3b4f80ecd333f596ea7dab205325)
> 
> See INSTALL.txt for more information on how to build LilyPond
> ...
> 
> here is the output of fontforge:
> 
> # fontforge --version
> Copyright (c) 2000-2014 by George Williams. See AUTHORS for Contributors.
>  License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later 
> <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
>  with many parts BSD <http://fontforge.org/license.html>. Please read 
> LICENSE.
>  Based on sources from 10:14 CEST 19-Aug-2015-ML-D.
>  Based on source from git with hash: 
> 99da6faa1ea3b4f80ecd333f596ea7dab205325e
> no xdefs_filename!
> TESTING: getPixmapDir:/usr/share/fontforge/pixmaps
> TESTING: getShareDir:/usr/share/fontforge
> TESTING: GResourceProgramDir:/usr/bin
> trying default theme:/usr/share/fontforge/pixmaps/resources
> fontforge 10:14 CEST 19-Aug-2015
> libfontforge 20150819
> 
> 
> it apparently catches git hash instead of the date version.

Would you try the attached patch?
It is necessary `./autogen.sh' before `./configure'.

>From a0f236e881b4b52088cc51bcd52049c44e42387c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Masamichi Hosoda <address@hidden>
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2015 21:20:17 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] Fix fontforge version detection

Newer fontforge shows git hash in `fontforge --version`.
In that case, configure script
might recognize it as date (version).
---
 aclocal.m4 | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/aclocal.m4 b/aclocal.m4
index 48d0b77..0037c58 100644
--- a/aclocal.m4
+++ b/aclocal.m4
@@ -42,7 +42,8 @@ AC_DEFUN(STEPMAKE_GET_VERSION, [
 
     if test -z "$_ver"; then
         ## If empty, try date [fontforge]
-        eval _ver=\"\`("$1" --version || "$1" -V) 2>&1 | grep '[0-9]\{6,8\}' \
+        eval _ver=\"\`("$1" --version || "$1" -V) 2>&1 \
+           | grep '\(^\|[^0-9a-f]\)[0-9]\{6,8\}\([^0-9a-f]\|$\)' \
            | head -n 1 \
            | sed -e 's/^[^.0-9]*//' -e 's/[^.0-9]*$//'\`\"
     fi
-- 
2.4.5