Re: fontforge version detection during build

[Federico Bruni]

Il giorno mer 1 mag 2019 alle 16:14, Kyrylo Shpytsya 
<address@hidden> ha scritto:
> Build fails with:
>
> ERROR: Please install required programs:  /usr/bin/fontforge >= 
> 20110222
> (installed: )

It seems your fontforge installation is not found.
Does it occur when you run configure?

Which distro are you using?


> $ /usr/bin/fontforge --version
> Copyright (c) 2000-2018 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 14:22 UTC  8-Apr-2019-ML-D.
>  Based on source from git with hash:
> fontforge 14:22 UTC  8-Apr-2019
> libfontforge 20190408


I can build without any problem in Fedora 30.
But I have a slightly older version.

$ 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 08:50 UTC 17-Feb-2019-ML-D.
Based on source from git with hash:
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 08:50 UTC 17-Feb-2019
libfontforge 20190217