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

[Glynn Clements]

Markus Neteler 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.

There are potentially other things which can cause it, and we don't
want to overwrite the fontcap file if it has been edited by the user.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>