Merge pull request #556 from googlefonts/die-noisily

Die noisily when variable fonts fail to build
googlefonts · May 12, 2022 · 3b769cc · 3b769cc
2 parents b8249ae + da7e592
commit 3b769cc
Showing 1 changed file with 4 additions and 7 deletions.
diff --git a/Lib/gftools/builder/__init__.py b/Lib/gftools/builder/__init__.py
@@ -291,13 +291,10 @@ def build_variable(self):
             args["output_path"] = os.path.join(
                 self.config["vfDir"], sourcebase + "-VF.ttf",
             )
-            try:
-                output_files = self.run_fontmake(source, args)
-                newname = self.rename_variable(output_files[0])
-                ttFont = TTFont(newname)
-                ttFonts.append(ttFont)
-            except Exception as e:
-                self.logger.error("Could not build variable font: %s" % e)
+            output_files = self.run_fontmake(source, args)
+            newname = self.rename_variable(output_files[0])
+            ttFont = TTFont(newname)
+            ttFonts.append(ttFont)
 
         if not ttFonts:
             return