From: Daniel Johnson <address@hidden>
To: Luis Guillermo Agudelo <address@hidden>
CC: address@hidden
Subject: Re: compilation error in 2.5.26
Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 14:32:56 -0700
What version of teTeX are you using? If it's really ancient you might
want to upgrade. (Metafont is part of the teTeX package, which is
required for building Lilypond.) The current stable version of teTeX
3.0, but most Linux distributions are shipping 2.0.2 (which is still
good enough).
--Daniel
Luis Guillermo Agudelo wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am having the following compilation error whilst building 2.5.26 and
> the root cause seem to be in mftrace :
>
> mftrace --encoding feta11.enc --no-afm --simplify -I ./out/
> --formats=pfa,pfb,svg feta11
> mftrace 1.1.9
> Font `feta11'...
> Warning: no extra font information for this font.
> Consider writing a XX_guess_font_info() routine.
> Using encoding file: `./out/feta11.enc'
> Running Metafont...warning: mf: command exited with value 32512
(ignored)
>
>
> Metafont failed. Excerpt from the log file:
>
> *****Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/share/bin/mftrace", line 1278, in ?
> base = gen_pixel_font (basename, metric, magnification)
> File "/usr/share/bin/mftrace", line 918, in gen_pixel_font
> start = m.start (0)
> AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'start'
> make[1]: *** [out/feta11.pfa] Error 1