[Slackbuilds-users] Problem building lilypond

[Rob McGee]

On Saturday 10 December 2011 11:27:35 Bob Snyder wrote:
> On 12/10/2011 12:51 AM, Eugen Wissner wrote:
> > 2011/12/10 Bob Snyder <bob.snyder at cox.net
> >     When building lilypond (with sbopkg) I get the following
> >     error:
> >        ERROR: Please install required programs:  mf-nowin mf
> >        mfw mfont mpost
> >     
> >     I'm guessing that these are all part of metafont and/or
> >     metapost. I have a complete install of 13.37 and it appears
> >     that at least metafont is installed (mfw and mpost don't
> >     answer up to a command line invocation). I have already
> >     installed the listed dependencies fontforge and mftrace
> >     
> >     Any idea what's going on?
> >     
> > "su -" already tried?
> 
> Well I'm building as root of course, which is where the problem
> occurs.

The point is http://slackbuilds.org/faq/#su ... which is explained 
here: http://slackbuilds.org/howto/#su

Ensure that you have a clean login environment as root. This also 
applies to a shell from which sbopkg is invoked.