Re: fontforge version problems

[Werner LEMBERG]

> So I wonder why we are using `2>&1' in STEPMAKE_GET_VERSION.  IMHO,
> this should be replaced with `2>/dev/null'.  In case there is a
> program which really needs the stderr output for `--version' (which
> program?), this should be handled specially, for example, with a
> STEPMAKE_GET_STDERR_VERSION macro.

Uh, oh, too many tests fail with `2>/dev/null', most notably python.
Additionally, current development versions of fontforge use a
two-digit year number (instead of four digits) which makes the script
fail even more...  Sigh.

I've written already to the fontforge people to make them fix the
output of --version.


    Werner