Bug 303051 – media-gfx/fontforge-20090923 fails to install python modules: fontforge.so and psMat.so

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Andreas Proteus 2010-02-01 03:06:30 UTC]

I emerge fontforge with USE="python" but the the two python modules:
fontforge.so and psMat.so are not installed.

Any ideas?

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Jouni Kosonen 2010-02-11 20:22:57 UTC]

Created attachment 219277 [details, diff]
Fix to build python scripting module

Use enable-pyextension instead of with-pyextension

[Comment 2 Jouni Kosonen 2010-02-11 20:24:08 UTC]

From the config.log of fontforge-20090923:
configure:28720: WARNING: unrecognized options: --with-pyextension

It appears that the correct option to pass is --enable-pyextension instead.
I tried this with the attached modification to the ebuild, and the resulting installation does contain these files:

   /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/fontforge.so
   /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/psMat.so

This may or may not be all that is needed, but at least xgridfit works now.
It failed to find a scriptable fontforge earlier.

[Comment 3 Andreas Proteus 2010-02-11 22:05:47 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
I can confirm that with  the patch applied,  the two python modules are now build as expected.

This is what I needed.

Thank you very much.

Kind regards.