Re: compiling ec-fonts-mftraced

[Daniel Johnson]

Hello all,

I too am a Gentoo user, currently using Lilypond 2.5.2.  I had no 
trouble building ec-fonts-mftraced, but I was unable to build the 
Lilypond documentation.  Both these problems are already entered into 
Gentoo's bugzilla but no new activity has been entered on the bug in a 
while.

I did a writeup in the Gentoo forums on how to get 2.4.2 working, 
written before there was an official Gentoo ebuild for any version 
higher than 2.2.6:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=256926

This resulted in a fully functional Lilypond installation. Unfortunately 
since I upgraded to the Gentoo ebuild of 2.5.2 I have been unable to get 
the documentation installed (though the rest builds OK).  I eventually 
resorted to using an RPM of the documentation.  I would guess that there 
is an unlisted dependency that is going unsatisfied.

Here is what the 2.5.2 Gentoo ebuild lists as dependencies for both the 
ec-fonts-mftraced and lilypond packages (including the documentation 
option):
- guile 1.6.4
- ghostscript (no version given)
- tetex (no version given)
- python 2.2.3-r1
- t1utils 1.32
- perl 5.8.0-r12
- texinfo 4.6
- flex 2.5.4a-r5
- gcc 3.1-r8
- make 3.80
- mftrace 1.0.27
- bison (any version except 1.75)
- imagemagick (no version given) -- only needed for building documentation
- netpbm 9.12-r4 -- only needed for building documentation
- potrace 1.5

I am guessing that the problem resides in one of the non-versioned 
dependencies listed.  I just upgraded imagemagick to latest and will try 
building again.  Since the build process fails only when building the 
documentation, it makes sense that the failing dependency might be one 
of the documentation-only dependencies.

By the way, on Gentoo, if you have emerged Lilypond, you have 
automatically emerged tetex.  The only way you could be missing tetex is 
if you un-merged it after emerging Lilypond.

--Daniel


Marcus Macauley wrote:

> Hi Scott/others,
>
> I am having the same problem. I'm running the latest version of Gentoo
> (2004.3-r1, kernel 2.6.9), and have tried compiling each version of
> ec-fonts-mtraced, using "make" or "make all install", and it generates
> the same error every time (as Scott copied below).
>
> Actually, I thought I had tetex installed, but I just now noticed that I
> don't. So maybe that's the problem? I'll try compiling ec-fonts-mftraced
> again after installing tetex, and report what happens.
>
> FWIW, I "emerged" (installed from source with Gentoo) Lilypond, which
> happens to be version 2.0.3 (which I think doesn't require
> ec-fonts.mftraced).
>
> Marcus
>
>
> Scott wrote:
> -------
> Hi All,
>
> I am trying to compile ec-fonts-mftraced-1.0.8, and am getting the
> following error:
>
> Tracing bitmaps... Invoking `gf2pbm -n 0 -o char.pbm ecbx10.7227gf'
>
> Opening pipe  `gf2pbm -n 0 -s ecbx10.7227gf'
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/usr/bin/mftrace", line 1184, in ?
>    trace_font (basename, gf_fontname, metric, glyph_range, encoding,
> magnification)
>  File "/usr/bin/mftrace", line 636, in trace_font
>    success = trace_one ("char.pbm", '(null)--1216699596' %
> (gf_fontname, a))
>  File "/usr/bin/mftrace", line 355, in trace_one
>    status = system (trace_command (pbmfile, ''), 1)
> TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not callable
> make: *** [pfa/ecbx10.pfa] Error 1
>
> Could anyone help me out?
>
> Also, I am experiencing alot of:
>
> /var/cache/fonts/ls-R: Permission denied
>
> errors.  Has anyone successfully compiled ec-fonts-mftraced-1.0.8,
> perhaps even on a gentoo box?  Thanks for any assistance.
>
> Best,
> Scott
>
>