[GRASS-user] get message warning: unable to open font map in i.points such file

[Markus Neteler]

On Jan 30, 2008 2:29 PM, Paul Kelly <paul-grass at stjohnspoint.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Jan 2008, Philipp Steigenberger wrote:
...
> > WARNING: unable to open font map '/usr/lib/grass/fonts/.hmp': No such
> > file
>
> Sorry, meant to reply to this earlier. The usual solution for this is to
> run:
> g.mkfontcap -o
> to re-generate the font file.
>
> Did you compile GRASS yourself? Were the compiled binaries moved to some
> other location in the filesystem without running "make install" - if so,
> the locations of the GRASS built-in fonts in the fontcap file would be
> wrong and it needs to be regenerated.

Paul,

any chance to catch this warning and run g.mkfontcap -o automatically
if needed? That people move binaries around will happen regularly.

Markus