Re: gfont installation problem

[Denis Barbier <nospam@thanx>]

On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Stephan Petersen wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> I downloaded gfont (V1.0.2) and tried to install it, but ./configure
> aborts with:
> 
> checking for Perl language... expr: syntax error
> built v5.004_04
> configure: error: required program perl'' not found

Hi Stephan,

Go under gfont-1.0.2 and type
   patch -p1 < the_name_of_the_patch_below

Denis

--- gfont-1.0.2/configure	Tue Sep 16 11:30:35 1997
+++ gfont-1.0.2/configure	Fri Dec 18 13:19:55 1998
@@ -805,7 +805,7 @@
     for perl in perl5 perl miniperl; do
          if test -x "$dir/$perl"; then
              perl="$dir/$perl"
-             version=`$perl -v | grep version | sed -e 's/.* version //' -e 's/ with.*//'`
+             version=`$perl -v | grep version | sed -e 's/.* version //' -e 's/_.*//'`
              versionnum="`echo $version | sed -e 's/\.//g' -e 's/_//g'`"
              versionnum=`expr $versionnum - $c`
              echo "$versionnum $version $perl" >>$TMPFILE
--- gfont-1.0.2/gfont_mkgdf_all	Fri Sep  5 21:21:52 1997
+++ gfont-1.0.2/gfont_mkgdf_all	Tue Dec 29 12:13:14 1998
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-#!/sw/bin/perl
-eval 'exec /sw/bin/perl -S $0 ${1+"$@"}'
+#!/usr/bin/perl
+eval 'exec /usr/bin/perl -S $0 ${1+"$@"}'
     if $running_under_some_shell;
 ##
 ##  mkgdf_pre -- Pregenerate GdF Files from Fontmap
@@ -12,10 +12,10 @@
 use vars qw($mkgdf $fontmap $gdfdir $tmpgdfdir);
 use vars qw(@FONT, $font);
 
-$mkgdf     = "/sw/pkg/gfont/lib/exec/gfont_mkgdf";
-$fontmap   = "/sw/pkg/gfont/lib/etc/Fontmap";
-$gdfdir    = "/sw/pkg/gfont/lib/gdf";
-$tmpgdfdir = "/sw/var/gfont/";
+$mkgdf     = "/usr/lib/gfont/exec/gfont_mkgdf";
+$fontmap   = "/usr/lib/gfont/etc/Fontmap";
+$gdfdir    = "/usr/lib/gfont/gdf";
+$tmpgdfdir = "/usr/lib/gfont/gdf";
 
 sub system {
     my ($cmd) = @_;


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