[Fontforge-devel] Problems with paste and patch -- Mac OS 10.5.7

[Joel G. <joe...@ya...>]

I love fontforge and until recently it was working flawlessly for me.

However, now that I'm experiencing the same problems with Edit | Paste  
on the Mac as others have reported, I am trying to install your patch  
(clip.patch).

But first a snag:

After downloading from CVS, and attempting to build ff from source, ./ 
configure is getting stuck at this step:
"checking trying to find the freetype source directory -- be  
patient... "
I've waited for hours and it does not proceed.
I've also tried installing the latest version of freetype  
(successfully), but ./configure gets stuck at the same place.

Question: Is there a particular place I should put the freetype source  
directory?
(freetype make install says it installs itself under /usr/local/ ;  
when I "locate freetype" there are tons of references to it, including  
as /usr/X11/include/freetype2/...)

Also: I do not think I have any special X11 clipboard manager  
installed. But how would I check for this to make sure?

Thank you, George, for your excellent work!

-- Joel Gluck, Boston