Martin, you wrote:
| [nothing new]
|
| You sent this yesterday already. With the aim of
| helping you (and out of
| curiosity), I am trying to find out which of your
| tools produces this
| strange error.
|
| But we can only find this out if cooperate,
| because the problem is on
| *your* computer. Let me try again:
|
| The configure script uses a relatively
| complicated piece of code to
| determine the version of fontforge that is
| installed. Normally this code
| does what it is supposed to do, that is, it
| produces something like
|
| checking /sw/bin/fontforge version... 20080927
|
| In your case, it produces some strange output
| instead. The piece of code
| in question runs first "fontforge --version" and
| then filters the output
| through "head" and "sed". Therefore I asked first
| what you get from the
| command
|
|    fontforge --version
|
| If the output of this was OK, the next step would
| have been to see if
| the "head" command is working correctly, for
| example by looking at the
| output of
|
|    echo foo | head -n 1
|
| If this gives anything other than "foo", the
| culprit would be clear.
|
| --
| Martin
| [nothing new]
|
| You sent this yesterday already. With the aim of
| helping you (and out of
| curiosity), I am trying to find out which of your
| tools produces this
| strange error.
|
| But we can only find this out if cooperate,
| because the problem is on
| *your* computer. Let me try again:
|
| The configure script uses a relatively
| complicated piece of code to
| determine the version of fontforge that is
| installed. Normally this code
| does what it is supposed to do, that is, it
| produces something like
|
| checking /sw/bin/fontforge version... 20080927
|
| In your case, it produces some strange output
| instead. The piece of code
| in question runs first "fontforge --version" and
| then filters the output
| through "head" and "sed". Therefore I asked first
| what you get from the
| command
|
|    fontforge --version
|
| If the output of this was OK, the next step would
| have been to see if
| the "head" command is working correctly, for
| example by looking at the
| output of
|
|    echo foo | head -n 1
|
| If this gives anything other than "foo", the
| culprit would be clear.
|
| --
| Martin

This gives "foo". -- Jonathan


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