To install from a git checkout:
./bootstrap
./configure
make
[sudo] make install
Note that you should have build tools, build dependencies and runtime dependencies installed. The exact method to do this depends on your OS. On Ubuntu, for example, you should get:
- packaging-dev should get you covered for building
- you can see the build dependencies in the debian/control file
(or you can run sudo ./debian/deb-build-dep if you have aptitude to automate this)
- for the runtime dependencies you also need to install libspiro
If after installation, running fontforge gives you some
"*.so cannot open shared object file" style errors, you
might have to run this as well:
sudo ldconfig