problems building fontforge from SBo
 

hello,

I'm using Slackware64-current here and have tried to go multilib using alienBOB's how-to I got here.

AFAIK, it installed ok but when I try to install Wine's dependencies fontforge and webcore-fonts using SBo's SlackBuild, I get the error log I posted on this pastebin.

Kinda lost here... Thoughts are welcome! =)

Thanks in advance!
gtludwig

you need two fixes for fontforge on -current, you can have a look here for a patch (for the new libpng) and a small correction to the slackbuild (for the new bash).

ponce,

err, I'm sorta of a newbie on patching... what files I need and how do I apply the patchs?

thanks

easiest way is to download the slackbuild's .tar.gz (everything you need is inside), unpack and then use it like the SBo's one. :)

ponce,

Something else is broken... pastebin is here. gdraw??

thanks so far! =)

maybe you are missing the standard freetype package from slackware64, try installing/upgrading that before building fontforge.

I uninstalled it because I thought only the -compat32 was enough... obviously not!

fontforge installed!

thank you!
gtludwig

I think include files for building are only in the native packages, not in -compat32 (I suppose to avoid the same files in two different packages).

glad it worked :)