Re: compilation error in 2.5.26

[Daniel Johnson]

Hi Luis --

I don't think ec-fonts is part of this problem. Looks like you are
crashing while Metafont is trying to generate a feta font -- that
shouldn't involve ec-fonts at all. What is happening is that not only is
Metafont failing, but it is not even generating a log. Do you get clean
results for the following:

mf --version

If your system can't find mf or if mf itself crashes, then it'll be
small wonder that mftrace is choking. That would also explain your
issues with ec-fonts.

--d


Luis Guillermo Agudelo wrote:

> Thanks Daniel.
>
> My current version of tetex is 2.0.2 indeed. I will try however
> upgrading it to 3.0 to see if this solves my problem.
>
> I am wondering though if my trouble could be related to the ec-fonts
> package... I remember not having a very clean installation. I will
> keep investigating and I will post the answer as soon as I find it.
>
> Thanks for your help.
> Luis
>
>> 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
>>
>>
>
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