FontForge builds + fails to find MacPorts X11 at runtime

[davidfavor (David Favor)]

David-Favor-iMac# pwd
/Applications/MacPorts/FontForge.app/Contents/MacOS
David-Favor-iMac# ./FontForge 
Copyright (c) 2000-2012 by George Williams.
 Executable based on sources from 14:57 GMT 31-Jul-2012-ML-TtfDb.
 Library based on sources from 14:57 GMT 31-Jul-2012.
Could not open screen.
You must start X11 before you can start ./FontForge
 X11 is optional software found on your install DVD.

David-Favor-iMac# port installed | egrep -i 'xorg-libX11|fontforge|quartz-wm'
  fontforge @20120731_3+freetype_bytecode+python27 (active)
  quartz-wm @1.3.1_1 (active)
  xorg-libX11 @1.6.2_0 (active)

[davidfavor (David Favor)]

Removed all traces of X11 + MacPorts.

Reinstalled MacPorts + this error occurs now.

[davidfavor (David Favor)]

Attaching script I used to cleanse system X11.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Well, fontforge does require an X11 server. Which one are you wanting to use? OS X's (if you have a version of OS X that came with one)? MacPorts' (from the xorg-server port)? Xquartz's? Whichever you want to use, is your DISPLAY environment variable set up correctly to auto-launch that X11 server? If not, you'll have to manually launch that X11 server first, at least.

[kencu (Ken)]

fontforge updated several times since this ticket.