From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arun Isaac Subject: Re: font-build-system Date: Fri, 12 May 2017 01:04:12 +0530 Message-ID: References: <20170205125841.hsywh3xuyoabt4vq@wasp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42311) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d8trR-0000Mf-HW for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 May 2017 15:34:54 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d8trM-0006dR-KN for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 May 2017 15:34:53 -0400 Received: from o143.p9.mailjet.com ([87.253.234.143]:55028) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d8trM-0006bk-BF for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 May 2017 15:34:48 -0400 In-reply-to: <20170205125841.hsywh3xuyoabt4vq@wasp> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: guix-devel@gnu.org ng0 writes: > we have 20 - 25 fonts (I didn't really count), and only 2 are using a > > system* make args > > in their build phase, every other font just extracts, creates folders > and copies the fonts to the folders. > This is much repetition which could be avoided by just calling a build > system, rather than applying changes to fonts over and over again. > > It looks like this can be achieved by something as small as the emacs > build-system. Would anyone give it a try? Is anybody working on this? I'd like to give this a shot, if nobody else is working on it already. =