Re: Issue 1635 in lilypond: clean up misleading warnings inwebsitebuild

[Trevor Daniels]

> > What required program are you asked to install? if it is 
> > fontforge, I run  Ubuntu and had the same problem.  Uninstall 
> > fontforge, compile it from  source and you'll almost certainly 
> > solve the problem.
>
> Could you elaborate a little on this for those
> Ubuntu users who are less familiar with compiling
> packages from source.  Where to find the source,
> how to compile it, for example.

OK, I think I figured this out now.  (if there's an
easier way, please let us Unix illiterati know)

In Ubuntu:
Go to 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/fontforge/files/fontforge-source/
Click the 2010-05-01 version
In the download panel select Save File and click OK
This downloads the zipped source into ~/Downloads
Extract the archived source files
 then
In a terminal window:
cd to ~/Downloads/fontforge-20100501
Type ./configure (takes a few minutes)
Type make (compiles the package - also takes quite a time)
Type make install (installs the package in usr/bin)
cd to lilypond-git
Type ./configure (should now find fontforge-20100501)

That's it!

Trevor