FONT-EBDFTOPCF.ECLASS(5)

NAME
font-ebdftopcf.eclass - Optimal PCF generation for BDF font sources

DESCRIPTION
The font-ebdftopcf eclass provides a consistant and optimal way to generate PCF font files from BDF sources. This eclass is intended to be used in conjuction with the font eclass. Optimally is defined as fully parallel to the extend of your ${MAKEOPTS} instead of any serial loops.

EXAMPLES
Here's a simple example ebuild:
inherit font font-ebdftopcf
DESCRIPTION="Foobar fonts"
HOMEPAGE="http://www.foobar.com/fonts/"
SRC_URI="http://www.foobar.com/${P}.tar.bz2"
LICENSE="GPL-2"
SLOT="0"
KEYWORDS="~x86"
FONT_SUFFIX="pcf.gz"
DOCS="README* ChangeLog"
# we specifically ignore foobar-simple.bdf for this example
# if this variable was left out, both would be compiled.
BDFFILES="foobar-complex.bdf"

VARIABLES

BDFTOPCF_PARAMS
    Additional arguments to pass to bdftopcf.

BDFFILES
    List of .bdf files to convert to .pcf.gz. If omitted, filled with the output of find -name '*.bdf'.

FUNCTIONS

ebdftopcf <.bdf files>
    Compile specified .bdf files into .pcf.gz files. Dies if called without arguments, or if a specified .bdf file does not exist.

font-ebdftopcf_src_compile
    Compiles all .bdf font files listed in ${BDFFILES}. This function will be used as the default src_compile function in an ebuild that omits one.

REPORTING BUGS
Please report bugs via http://bugs.gentoo.org/

SEE ALSO
ebuild(5) font.eclass(5) bcftopcf(1)

FILES
/usr/portage/eclass/font-ebdftopcf.eclass

AUTHORS
Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org>