Compiling Lilypond-2.6.0 On Gentoo

[J. Scott Amort]

Hi All,

I am eager to give Lilypond-2.6.0 a try!

However, on my Gentoo box, I get the following error during the compile:

mf-nowin -progname=mf "\mode:=laserjet; nonstopmode; input feta11.mf;"
This is METAFONT, Version 2.71828 (Web2C 7.5.4)
kpathsea: Running mktexfmt mf.base
tcfmgr: config file `tcfmgr.map' (usually in $TEXMFMAIN/texconfig) not
found.
fmtutil: config file `fmtutil.cnf' not found.
I can't find the base file `mf.base'!
make[1]: *** [out/feta11.tfm] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/home/portage/lilypond-2.6.0/work/lilypond-2.6.0/mf'make: *** [all]
Error 2

I did a bit of searching around, and it seems that there are a few other
gentoo users with a similar error (albeit on an earlier version of
lilypond - 2.5.2: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90334 ).  It
seems to be related to tetex, but I do have the latest gentoo version
installed (3.0-r2).

However, I also see that I can do a:

make -C mf get-pfa

that appears to download and extract pretraced fonts from an rpm
package.  Cool.  But, after the above make (apparently successfully), I
follow it up with a 'make all' and still run into the same error as
above.

So, could anyone shed some light on the original error; or perhaps
explain how the 'get-pfa' option should be used.

Thanks very much for you help, and for a great program!

Best,
Scott

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