Subject: Re: bug#40819: [core-updates] font-gnu-freefont fails to build
From: Marius Bakke <[email-masked]>
To: Jack Hill <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 18:20:34 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Jack Hill <[email-masked]> writes:

> Hi Guix,
>
> On the current core-updates branch, font-gnu-freefont fails to build with 
> the attatched build log.
>
> Based on the messages about syntax errors, it looks like gnu-freefont is 
> not compatible with python3, and instead needs python2.

A new version of GNU FreeFont that supports Python 3 is slated for later
this year.  Meanwhile I fixed this by providing an older FontForge in
commit 4affa9182d93c77505c40e95964b8ab9d436298b.

Thanks!