[Slackbuilds-users] fontforge-20170731 has library issue

[Rich Shepard]

   On a fully patched 14.2 system trying to build fontforge-20170731 throws
this error:

.libs/libgutils_la-gimagereadxpm.o: In function `findnextkey':
gimagereadxpm.c:(.text+0x9b): undefined reference to `ff_unicode_utype'
.libs/libgutils_la-gimagereadxpm.o: In function `GImageReadXpm':
gimagereadxpm.c:(.text+0x4ec): undefined reference to `ff_unicode_utype'
.libs/libgutils_la-giohosts.o: In function `_GIO_LookupHost':
giohosts.c:(.text+0x4fe): undefined reference to `ff_unicode_utype'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
libtool:   error: error: relink 'libgutils.la' with the above command before installing it
Makefile:1313: recipe for target 'install-libLTLIBRARIES' failed
make[3]: *** [install-libLTLIBRARIES] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory '/tmp/SBo/fontforge-20170731/gutils'
Makefile:1749: recipe for target 'install-am' failed
make[2]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory '/tmp/SBo/fontforge-20170731/gutils'
Makefile:1580: recipe for target 'install-recursive' failed
make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/tmp/SBo/fontforge-20170731'
Makefile:1877: recipe for target 'install' failed
make: *** [install] Error 2

   Please advise how to fix it.

Regards,

Rich