Re: I cannot run make check since Issue 5450: relocate.cc: Introduce new command `set?'

[Thomas Morley]

Am Mi., 23. Jan. 2019 um 14:30 Uhr schrieb James Lowe <address@hidden>:
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> Thomas,
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> On Wed, 23 Jan 2019 10:58:14 +0100, Thomas Morley <address@hidden> wrote:
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> > I seem to remember Masamichi-san reported some problems with recent gs
> > and extractpdfmark, I can be wrong here, though. Right now I've not
> > the time to research. cc-ing him
> >
> > I'll redo tests with recent gs-master in the evening.
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> Here is what I think you were referring to
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> On Sat, 15 Dec 2018 23:42:46 +0900 (JST), Masamichi Hosoda <address@hidden> 
> wrote:
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> > I've noticed that gs-9.26 cannot embed CID fonts
> > for the extractpdfmark method.
> >
> > In the method, we defined fonts in PostScript, and use it in PDF.
> > gs-9.26 cannot define the fonts for PDF in PostScript.
> > https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700367#c4
> >
> > To define fonts for ghostscript,
> > root privileges seems to be required on most systems.
> > https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700367#c6
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> This is a gs 9.26 issue and I cannot see how this might be related to what we 
> have hit here, so maybe Hosoda-san will be abel to figure why make check is 
> breaking without extractpdfmark installed.

Hi James,

thanks for your finding. This is indeed what I vaguely remembered.
While I agree it has nothing to do with the current problem, it may be
an argument against _requirement_ of extractpdfmark
Though, I'm not familiar with this stuff, I may be wrong.

Thanks,
  Harm