Re: Doc build failure: pngtopnm: Error writing single byte sample to file

[Harmath Dénes]

On 2009.11.05., at 18:06, Graham Percival wrote:

> 2009/11/5 Harmath Dénes <address@hidden>:
> > You were right. I finally managed to put the scripts' location before
> > /opt/local/bin in my path, and now it proceeds. But after a while,  
> > I get the
> > following error:
> >
> > Pango-ERROR **: Unable to open font file /Library/Fonts/Verdana.ttf  
> > for font
> > Century Schoolbook L Italic 3.0673828125, exiting
>
> Dunno.  I know that OSX has various font issues.  This was just fixed
> in GUB by using the latest freetype, fontconfig, pango, and fontforge.
> A similar solution might help for you?
>
> BTW, are you on OSX 10.5 or 10.6?


My software environment:
OS X 10.5.8
MacPorts 1.8.1
LilyPond 2.13.6
freetype 2.3.9
fontconfig 2.7.3
pango 1.24.5
fontforge 20090622

> > Seeing this, I wanted to build the manual without building all the  
> > ‘input/*’
> > stuff, but I get the following error:
> >
> > thSoft-MacBook:lilypond-translation thsoft$ cd Documentation/
> > thSoft-MacBook:Documentation thsoft$ make doc
>
> Don't you want EXTERNAL_BINARY in there?

Aha... Yes, reasonable, though then the CG should mention it there too.
So I tried this, but LilyPond failed to compile a snippet:

error: failed files: "aa/lily-0a4411fa.ly"
command failed: /Applications/LilyPond-dev.app/Contents/Resources/bin/ 
lilypond -dbackend=eps --formats=ps,png,pdf  -dinclude-eps-fonts -dgs- 
load-fonts --header=doctitle --header=doctitlefr --header=doctitlees -- 
header=doctitlede --header=doctitlenl --header=doctitleja -- 
header=doctitlehu --header=texidoc --header=texidocfr -- 
header=texidoces --header=texidocde --header=texidocnl -- 
header=texidocja --header=texidochu -dcheck-internal-types -ddump- 
signatures -danti-alias-factor=2 -I  "/Users/thsoft/Development/ 
lilypond-translation/out/lybook-db"  -I  "/Users/thsoft/Development/ 
lilypond-translation/Documentation"  -I  "/Users/thsoft/Development/ 
lilypond-translation/Documentation"  -I  "/Users/thsoft/Development/ 
lilypond-translation/Documentation/out-www"  -I  "/Users/thsoft/ 
Development/lilypond-translation/input"  -I  "/Users/thsoft/ 
Development/lilypond-translation/Documentation"  -I  "/Users/thsoft/ 
Development/lilypond-translation/Documentation/snippets"  -I  "/Users/ 
thsoft/Development/lilypond-translation/input/regression"  -I  "/Users/ 
thsoft/Development/lilypond-translation/Documentation/included"  -I  "/ 
Users/thsoft/Development/lilypond-translation/mf/out"  -I  "/Users/ 
thsoft/Development/lilypond-translation/mf/out"  -I  "/Users/thsoft/ 
Development/lilypond-translation/Documentation/pictures"  -I  "/Users/ 
thsoft/Development/lilypond-translation/Documentation/pictures/out- 
www" --formats=eps  --verbose  -deps-box-padding=3.000000  -dread-file- 
list -dno-strip-output-dir  "/Users/thsoft/Development/lilypond- 
translation/out/lybook-db/snippet-names-747035862.ly"
Child returned 1
make[1]: *** [out-www/snippets.texi] Error 1
make: *** [doc-stage-1] Error 2

What should I do?

Dénes Harmath