I can't get the parallel processing scripts to work

[Owen]

@ctrlcctrlv with so many styles I agree parallel processing is super useful, but I can't seem to run the new scripts.

GENERATING TTF
.
**** Processing: data:,<empty/> ****
build-ttf.sh: line 41: parallel: command not found

./build-otf.sh: line 66: unexpected EOF while looking for matching "'`

these are the errors I get when I try and run the new build scripts. I am (as always) not very good with the computers, so it is more than likely that I'm doing something wrong here.

[Fredrick Brennan]

depending on your OS , the package should just be called parallel

sorry i did not see this before i posted in #1 :

let me know by the way if the build system changes cause any issues

i think you use arch (or manjaro?)

on either system the needed packages are:

• aur/xidel
• extra/parallel

[Fredrick Brennan]

alternatively these are .tar.gz containing both

parallel.tar.gz (requires Perl be installed but most GNU/Linux distros have it already)
xidel.tar.gz (completely static binary)

[fred@デブ.狸.agency ~/Workspace]$ for f in /tmp/{parallel,xidel}.tar.gz; do tar tf $f; done
usr/bin/parallel
usr/bin/xidel

[Owen]

funny I looked for a "parallel" package and nothing came up but I must have spelled it wrong or something because when I looked again it installed just fine.

OTF script still doesn't work for me...

build-otf.sh: line 66: unexpected EOF while looking for matching '"'

and TTF script only builds nine fonts (the source fonts no interpolation)

I added a "requirements.txt" because I saw that it requires xidel now, we can throw parallel into there 👍

[Fredrick Brennan]

aha. i had the dev/nightly build of xidel but distributed u xidel-bin which i now maintain on AUR. i will send a PR to use a command which works on stable xidel