Build of sys-boot/grub-2.00_p5107-r2[+truetype] fails: ./build-grub-mkfont -o unicode.pf2 /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/unifont.pcf.gz ./build-grub-mkfont: error: can't set 16x16 font size. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.USE=truetype emerge '=sys-boot/grub-2.00_p5107-r2' Actual Results: PATH=.:$PATH pkgdatadir=. /usr/bin/help2man --section=1 -i /var/tmp/portage/sys-boot/grub-2.00_p5107-r2/work/grub-2.00/docs/man/grub-kbdcomp.h2m -o grub-kbdcomp.1 grub-kbdcomp x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -o build-grub-mkfont -I/var/tmp/portage/sys-boot/grub-2.00_p5107-r2/work/grub-2.00/include -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/share/locale\" -DGRUB_FILE=\"util/grub-mkfont.c\" -I. -I/var/tmp/portage/sys-boot/grub-2.00_p5107-r2/work/grub-2.00 -I. -I/var/tmp/portage/sys-boot/grub-2.00_p5107-r2/work/grub-2.00 -I/var/tmp/portage/sys-boot/grub-2.00_p5107-r2/work/grub-2.00/include -I./include -I/var/tmp/portage/sys-boot/grub-2.00_p5107-r2/work/grub-2.00/grub-core/lib/libgcrypt-grub/include -I/var/tmp/portage/sys-boot/grub-2.00_p5107-r2/work/grub-2.00/grub-core/lib/libgcrypt-grub/src/ -I/var/tmp/portage/sys-boot/grub-2.00_p5107-r2/work/grub-2.00/grub-core/gnulib -DGRUB_MKFONT=1 -DGRUB_UTIL=1 /var/tmp/portage/sys-boot/grub-2.00_p5107-r2/work/grub-2.00/util/grub-mkfont.c /var/tmp/portage/sys-boot/grub-2.00_p5107-r2/work/grub-2.00/grub-core/unidata.c /var/tmp/portage/sys-boot/grub-2.00_p5107-r2/work/grub-2.00/grub-core/kern/emu/argp_common.c /var/tmp/portage/sys-boot/grub-2.00_p5107-r2/work/grub-2.00/grub-core/kern/emu/misc.c /var/tmp/portage/sys-boot/grub-2.00_p5107-r2/work/grub-2.00/util/misc.c /var/tmp/portage/sys-boot/grub-2.00_p5107-r2/work/grub-2.00/grub-core/gnulib/progname.c -I/usr/include/freetype2 -lfreetype -lz -lbz2 ./build-grub-mkfont -o unicode.pf2 /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/unifont.pcf.gz ./build-grub-mkfont: error: can't set 16x16 font size. make[2]: *** [unicode.pf2] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/sys-boot/grub-2.00_p5107-r2/work/grub-2.00-pc' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/sys-boot/grub-2.00_p5107-r2/work/grub-2.00-pc' make: *** [all] Error 2 # emerge --info Portage 2.2.1 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Created attachment 361346 [details] Full build log
Created attachment 361348 [details, diff] Add more verbose error message Please place the attached patch in /etc/portage/patches/sys-boot/grub/ . Then try building grub again. Hopefully, this will output a more useful error message.
./build-grub-mkfont: error: can't set 16x16 font size: invalid pixel size. That's all, sorry.
Hmm... it seems you might have some funky version of unifont. Can you see what package owns /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/unifont.pcf.gz? You can use the "qfile" command for that: qfile /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/unifont.pcf.gz
I am able to reproduce this failure after installing unifont-6.3. I've added a masked ebuild for that version to the tree for easier testing.
The grub ebuild now uses its own copy of unifont, which should avoid this issue.
This was bug in newer versions of unifont.
