Re: funky build errors

[Patrick McCarty]

On 2009-08-28, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > I assume that "needed" and "unneeded" aren't actually
> > contradictions... or maybe they are, and that's why the internal
> > error is printed.
> 
> They are contradictions, thus the internal error.  It's a rounding
> issue in FontForge.
> 
> >  Executable based on sources from 00:29 GMT 29-Apr-2008.
> >  Library based on sources from 20:49 GMT 30-Apr-2008.
> 
> This is ooold.  I've compiled the current CVS of FontForge by myself,
> and I don't see this (and I haven't seen such errors since almost a
> year).  George has fixed a bunch of such problems later in 2008, IIRC.
> 
> Please update FontForge.

Hmm.  I've seen these errors for a long time now (maybe a year and a
half), and I'm always using the latest fontforge tarball.

Testing CVS, I get similar errors, first appearing with feta11:

  Invoking "fontforge -script feta11.pe feta11.pfb"...
  Copyright (c) 2000-2009 by George Williams.
   Executable based on sources from 01:59 GMT 17-Aug-2009.
   Library based on sources from 05:09 GMT 14-Aug-2009.
  Internal Error in accidentals.flat.arrowdown: monotonic is both needed and 
unneeded.
  Internal Error in accidentals.flat.arrowdown: monotonic is both needed and 
unneeded.
  Internal Error in accidentals.flat.arrowdown: Expected needed monotonic.


-Patrick