Re: cannot bootstrao fontforge!

Matijs van Zuijlen <[email protected]> Thu, 28 Jul 2016 09:52:49 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.fonts.fontforge.devel
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Hi Apostolos,

On 27-07-16 17:50, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Today I used the following command to get the latest source of FF
> libtool (GNU libtool) 2.4.2
> git clone git://github.com/fontforge/fontforge.git
> 
> Although the instructions at
> 
> https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
> 
> say that one should run cinfigure, there is no configure file

This is a bug in CONTRIBUTING.md. It should tell you to run bootstrap
first (as it does later on in the instructions for creating a .deb
package). Running bootstrap works fine for me.

> and so one has to use the bootstrap script. Here is what I get:
> 
> apostolo@nadya>> ./bootstrap
> bootstrap: running: libtoolize --quiet
> bootstrap: running: git clone --depth 365
> 'http://git.savannah.gnu.org/r/gnulib.git' 'gnulib'
> Cloning into 'gnulib'...
>
> [...]
>
> join: -: seek error
> join: write error

This seems to be the source of the problem. Is there a problem with the
disk?

>
> [...]
>
> missing file lib/error.c

This should be in the gnulib repository cloned above. Can you try:

  cd gnulib
  git status

> 
> [...]
> 
> I am using
> 
> autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.69
> automake (GNU automake) 1.15
> libtool (GNU libtool) 2.4.2

These all look fine to me.

> 
>  Any help/assistance to solve this problem would be really appreciated!
> 
> A.S.
> 


Kind regards,
Matijs

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