From: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
To: Jack Hill <jackhill@jackhill.us>, 40819-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#40819: [core-updates] font-gnu-freefont fails to build
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 18:20:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h7x8g8j1.fsf@devup.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.2004241025370.5735@marsh.hcoop.net>
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Jack Hill <jackhill@jackhill.us> writes:
> Hi Guix,
>
> On the current core-updates branch, font-gnu-freefont fails to build with
> the attatched build log.
>
> Based on the messages about syntax errors, it looks like gnu-freefont is
> not compatible with python3, and instead needs python2.
A new version of GNU FreeFont that supports Python 3 is slated for later
this year. Meanwhile I fixed this by providing an older FontForge in
commit 4affa9182d93c77505c40e95964b8ab9d436298b.
Thanks!
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2020-04-24 14:33 bug#40819: [core-updates] font-gnu-freefont fails to build Jack Hill
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