On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 10:46:28AM -0700, Alan Feuerbacher via blfs-support wrote: > On 1/9/2020 4:23 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 09:08:46PM -0700, Alan Feuerbacher via blfs-support > > wrote: > > > InBLFS (systemd Edition) - Version 2020-01-07 I'm trying to build > > > Graphite2-1.3.13 but have run into several problems. > > > > > > An optional dependency silgraphite is needed "to build the *comparerender* > > > test and benchmarking tool," but building it results in build errors that > > > I > > > can't decipher. > > > > > > So ignore it. SIL packages are interesting for people with an > > > interest in rendering certain languages, or for related tools, but > > > they are not necessarily actively-maintained. If my memory serves, > > > the benchmarking is probably for how fast, or slow, the rendering > > > happens. > Ok. Still, it's irritating when a package fails to compile.
When I started to use BLFS for my main system we had far fewer packages both in the book and generally available, and their releases tended to be infrequent. It was possible to look at problems and (if the issue was not brand new) often find solutions or workarounds on google. These days, google is often much less useful (a lack of unique keywords for problems where other OS's or other languages use similar words, plus changes in how it searches) and there is far more churn of releases. So everyone not being paid to work on a 'nix distro has to decide what they will work on, and to hope that someone will one day fix some of the other annoyances. > I'm putting this off until I get X installed. I understand - without X and a tolerable browser, things are much harder. > > Examples of some of these fonts can be found at my page > > http://zarniwhoop.uk/ttf-otf-notes.html > > Wow! Lots of work there! > Yeah, there are a few other fonts I'd like to find time to look at, and some variations, but for the moment it ain't going to happen. However I'm grateful to the people at SIL for some of the tools I used. ĸen -- The right of the people to keep and arm Bears, shall not be infringed. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
