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[core-updates] font-gnu-freefont fails to build

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To: Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com>
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#40819: closed ([core-updates] font-gnu-freefont fails to build)
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 16:21:01 +0000

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From: Jack Hill <jackhill <at> jackhill.us>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: [core-updates] font-gnu-freefont fails to build
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 10:33:27 -0400 (EDT)

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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.

However, we already try to do this in the package definition:

;; replace python 3 with python 2
;; python 3 support commits aren't yet released in 20120503
;; so freefont needs python 2 support in fontforge
(native-inputs `(("fontforge" ,(package (inherit fontforge)
                                 (inputs `(("python-2" ,python-2)
                                 ,@(package-inputs fontforge)))))))


Best,
Jack

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From: Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com>
To: Jack Hill <jackhill <at> jackhill.us>, 40819-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#40819: [core-updates] font-gnu-freefont fails to build
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 18:20:34 +0200

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Jack Hill <jackhill <at> jackhill.us> 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!

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