Re: Trouble installing fontforge

http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/ms-install.html
 
For above instruction which may need to add a little
more lib package from cygwin. I remember, png lib and 
xml lib. But since you started to run ff, it's going
to prompt. So, just reinstall those necessary packages
as ff prompted.

--Victor
p.s.. sorry, i made a little mess. :-)


--- George Williams <gww@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 03:13, Rob Hyndman wrote:
> If you are wonder in what all this gibberish is:
> > If you ever happen to want to link against
> installed libraries
> > in a given directory, LIBDIR, you must either use
> libtool, and
> > specify the full pathname of the library, or use
> the `-LLIBDIR'
> > flag during linking and do at least one of the
> following:
> >     - add LIBDIR to the `PATH' environment
> variable
> >       during execution
> >     - add LIBDIR to the `LD_RUN_PATH' environment
> variable
> >       during linking
> >     - use the `-LLIBDIR' linker flag
> > 
> > See any operating system documentation about
> shared libraries for
> > more information, such as the ld(1) and ld.so(8)
> manual pages.
> >
>
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> Just ignore it. It is a message produced by the
> standard cygwin install
> script (not my script) and has absolutely no bearing
> on anything.
> 
> > I've no idea if this is correct or not. 
> Looks reasonable to me.
> > The use of ranlib from MinGW looks suspicious.
> Er... why? And why do you think it comes from MinGW?
> I'm not sure ff
> will run under MinGW, it expects cygwin.
> > 
> > When I try to start fontforge from the xterm with
> "fontforge - new", 
> > nothing happens.
> Do you mean absolutely nothing happens? it just
> hangs the xterm without
> producing a window or any message in the xterm?
> 
> I've never seen that behavior and can't imagine what
> might cause it.
> 
> If you get some kind of error message what is it?
> Perhaps the likeliest
> explanation is that /usr/local/bin isn't in your
> path... try typing
> /usr/local/bin/fontforge



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