Re: [Groff] Build groff from CVS - afmtodit not found

[Johann Höchtl]

On 09/16/2012 06:18 PM, Deri James wrote:
> On Sunday 16 Sep 2012 17:44:09 Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > > Warning: line 78: Failed to create groff font 'U-AB' by running
> > > afmtodit
> >
> > This means that the URW versions of the standard Postscript fonts are
> > either not installed or located in a directory not found by a building
> > script.  We are aware of this problem, and this will be eventually
> > fixed.
> >
> > > PS: I have a system-wide afmtodit in /usr/bin/afmtodit but I assume
> > > this shouldn't be taken as afmtodit is part of groff?
> >
> > Only groff has afmtodit.  Maybe it's an older version, but the above
> > error is not due to that.
> >
> >
> >      Werner
>
> I'm actually working on this at the moment and I've found that if you are
> using debian (or possibly a debian derivative) and have the package "gsfonts"
> installed the attached Foundry.in file solves the problem if you replace the
> one from cvs in font/devpdf.
You are right, this is Kubuntu. After replacing, groff builds without 
issues.. Thank you!
> I am still working on a more robust solution which will stop the make failing
> if the required fonts are not found.
>
> Cheers
>
> Deri


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