🚀 go-pugleaf

I am very interested in your efforts with the "Font Utilities" package
and would gladly volunteer some effort.  However, ...

I attempted to install your material on a DELL 433DE with Dell's SVR4,
issure 2.2, but ran into snags---some curable, some not so easy.

In order to get all the material to compile I had to add -DSYSV compiler
flag for code from the "pbmplus" system.  They do not use the same
System V flagging you do.

The X11 code would not link!
For "limn" the linker's output reads:

Undefined                       first referenced
 symbol                             in file
 XtStrings                           xserver.o
 ld: limn: fatal error: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to limn
 make[1]: *** [limn] Error 1

And, similarly for "xbfe":

 Undefined                       first referenced
  symbol                             in file
  XtShellStrings                      .././lib/lib.a(xmessage.o)
  XtStrings                           char.o
  ld: xbfe: fatal error: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to xbfe
  make[1]: *** [xbfe] Error 1

Both these globals are hidden by the X11 macros and not directly referred
to by the application programmer.  Hacking around with various mods to
the loader flags and libraries produced zip results.

Note, I was using Dell's installation of gcc: -v yields:
> Reading specs from /usr/dell/gcc-2/lib/gcc-lib/i386v4/2.1/specs
> gcc version 2.1
and installed make-3.60 for this job.  It appears I will have to add
gawk also(?).

Outside of a Herculean effort to dig into your code and decipher your
methodology, there does not seem much that I can do without some
suggestions on your part.  Perhaps someone else has run into this
problem.

At the moment, I do not consider this to be the system's fault because I
have successfully installed several packages using X11, but using, I might
add, much more standard procedures.

Do you have any suggestions?

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Lastly, and please take this as friendly comment from someone who has
been hacking on machines since 1959, I take STRONG exception with most of
the statements in manual section 16.3 "Portability," p.78.  What you
have basically said: "it's my sandbox and I'll make up any rules I want!"
Unfortunately, a point-by-point critique would take too long here.

I am sorry if I have offended you, but having ported A LOT of software
makes me very sensitive to this issue.  What's worse, I took the risk
of alienation even though I would like remain on friendly, speaking terms.

Please forgive and old hacker.
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Ciao. (Jerry)