And I checked out a brand new clone of the repository, and build failed with the same error about Ghostscript 9.27.
On Thu, Jul 7, 2022 at 7:20 AM Robert Goulding <robert.d.gouldin...@nd.edu> wrote: > I can't understand it myself, but I did "make distclean" and > re-configured, and got precisely the same error about 9.27. Twice Even > though my configure output matches yours, and identified my Ghostscript as > 9.53, and said that URW fonts were found. I'll try deleting and > redownloading and rebootstrapping my copy, in case there is something stuck > in there. Robert > > Robert Goulding > Sent from my phone > > On Thu, Jul 7, 2022, 12:48 AM G. Branden Robinson < > g.branden.robin...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> [looping in groff@gnu] >> >> Hi Robert, >> >> At 2022-07-06T17:34:49-0400, Robert Goulding wrote: >> > I checked out the latest source and tried building it on my Chromebook >> > (i.e., Debian 11 (bullseye)). The compile stopped when it tried to >> > build the pdf of all the man pages: >> > >> > make[1]: Entering directory '/home/rdgoulding/groff-git' >> > GROFF doc/groff-man-pages.pdf >> > gropdf:src/utils/addftinfo/addftinfo.1: fatal error: failed to open >> > '/usr/share/ghostscript/9.27/Resource/Font/NimbusRoman-Italic' >> > make[1]: *** [Makefile:12695: doc/groff-man-pages.pdf] Error 1 >> > make[1]: *** Deleting file 'doc/groff-man-pages.pdf' >> > make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/rdgoulding/groff-git' >> > make: *** [Makefile:5701: all] Error 2 >> > >> > The odd thing is that I have ghostscript version 9.53.3 installed, not >> > 9.27, and the font it can't find is at >> > /usr/share/ghostscript/9.53.3/Resource/Font/NimbusRoman-Italic >> >> I hadn't built in my bullseye chroot lately because I stopped fiddling >> with the build system for a while (apart from adding regression tests), >> but I too have a problem, though it differs from yours. >> >> In my chroot, the BuildFoundries script is not locating the 'afmtodit' >> command (which is one of the build artifacts). This happens with both >> in-tree and out-of-tree builds. My bullseye chroot also uses >> Ghostscript 9.53.3, and these fonts _are_ found. Please find part of my >> 'configure' output below. >> >> Nothing in the build hard-codes the Ghostscript version number used in >> the font search path, so I am wondering if you haven't forgotten to >> re-run 'configure'. It might help to 'make distclean' first...but I >> wouldn't be surprised if you hit the same afmtodit problem I did. I'll >> look at BuildFoundries and see if I can spot an error, but Deri's eyes >> will be better than mine here. >> >> In the below, you might want to see how your 'configure' output compares >> to mine for the "gs version" and "URW fonts" checks. >> >> Deri, can you throw any light on this stuff? >> >> Regards, >> Branden >> >> checking for gs version with good left sidebearing handling... got 9.53.3 >> (buggy) >> checking whether we are using the GNU C Library >= 2.1 or uClibc... >> (cached) yes >> checking for URW fonts in Type 1/PFB format... found in >> /usr/share/fonts/type1/urw-base35/ >> checking that generated files are newer than configure... done >> configure: creating ./config.status >> config.status: creating Makefile >> config.status: creating test-groff >> config.status: creating src/include/config.h >> config.status: executing depfiles commands >> >> GNU roff version 1.23.0.rc1.2692-2d9e >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> installation directory prefix : /usr/local >> C++ compiler and options : g++ -g -O2 >> use libgroff's memory allocator : no >> C compiler and options : gcc -g -O2 >> Perl interpreter version : 5.32.1 >> X11 support : disabled >> 'groff -l' uses print spooler : no >> use URW fonts for PDF output : yes >> preconv can use uchardet library : no >> can build groff.dvi, groff.pdf : no >> tests can use poppler PDF tools : no >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> configure: The uchardet library was not found. >> >> The 'preconv' preprocessor program will be unable to attempt automatic >> inference of an input file's character encoding. See the preconv(1) >> man page. >> >> configure: Buggy version of Ghostscript detected. >> >> Ghostscript versions 9.00 <= x < 9.54 suffer from a rendering glitch >> that affects the AT&T troff (and groff) special character '\(lh'; see >> <https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=703187>. If your >> version of Ghostscript has not been patched to fix this problem, you >> may need to work around it in groff documents you render for the >> PostScript (and, for tbl(1) tables, HTML) output devices. >> >> configure: The program 'psselect' was not found in $PATH. >> >> Consequently, groff's HTML output driver, 'grohtml', will not work >> properly. It will not be possible to prepare or install >> groff-generated documentation in HTML format. >> > -- Robert Goulding Director, John J. Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values; Director, Program in History and Philosophy of Science; Assoc. Professor, Program of Liberal Studies, Fellow, Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame.
