Re: Errors when doing 'make' for the first time when building the fonts

[David Kastrup]

Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> writes:

>>> and the version string contains `-D' or `-LD', e.g.
>>>
>>>  Executable based on sources from 23:14 GMT 25-Feb-2011-ML-TtfDb-D.
>>>                                                                 ^^
>>
>> Unfortunately, Ubuntu Maverick (11.04) only ships a version from 2010:
>>
>> address@hidden:~$ fontforge --version
>> Copyright (c) 2000-2010 by George Williams.
>>  Executable based on sources from 11:21 GMT 1-May-2010.
>
> At that time the additional configuration flags aren't shown in the
> version string of FontForge; this feature has been added later to the
> source code.  In other words, you have to look up Ubuntu's compilation
> script to find out whether they are using --enable-double or not.

The upcoming Oneiric (11.10) states

fontforge --version
Copyright (c) 2000-2011 by George Williams.
 Executable based on sources from 13:48 GMT 22-Feb-2011-ML.
 Library based on sources from 13:48 GMT 22-Feb-2011.
fontforge 20110222
libfontforge 20110222-ML

So you better file a problem report if you want this changed.  Not
likely for Oneiric, but you may be lucky for 12.04.

-- 
David Kastrup