Doh. Thanks, as ever.
It then failed trying to access https://pkg-config.freedesktop.org/ which
appears to be off the air at present. I found an alternative at fossies.org
and updated sources.py to use this location. It now gives me:
Tail of target/tools/log/fontforge.log >>>>>>>>
checking Build with LibUniNamesList Unicode support?... configure: error: in
`/home/gub/NewGub/gub/target/tools/build/fontforge-20190801':
configure: error: You may provide option ˋ--without-libuninameslistˋ to
build without this recommended feature
See `config.log' for more details
Command barfed: cd
/home/gub/NewGub/gub/target/tools/build/fontforge-20190801 && chmod +x
/home/gub/NewGub/gub/target/tools/src/fontforge-20190801/configure && sh
/home/gub/NewGub/gub/target/tools/src/fontforge-20190801/configure --prefix=/home/gub/NewGub/gub/target/tools/root/usr
--enable-shared --enable-static --disable-silent-rules --without-cairo --without-x
--enable-python-scripting=3
CFLAGS=-I/home/gub/NewGub/gub/target/tools/root/usr/include
LDFLAGS='-L/home/gub/NewGub/gub/target/tools/root/usr/lib -Wl,-rpath -Wl,\$$ORIGIN/../lib
-Wl,-rpath -Wl,/home/gub/NewGub/gub/target/tools/root/usr/lib '
--
Phil Holmes
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonas Hahnfeld" <hah...@hahnjo.de>
To: "Phil Holmes" <em...@philholmes.net>; "Devel" <lilypond-devel@gnu.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2020 12:18 PM
Subject: Re: Today's GUB failure