Re: Problem building latest git source

[Robert Goulding]

I completely uninstalled my 1.23 installation, and then the whole make/make
install went through without error.

On Thu, Jul 7, 2022 at 11:47 AM Robert Goulding <Robert.D.Goulding.2@nd.edu>
wrote:

> The download file in the build font/devpdf directory correctly points to
> the 9.53.3 installation of the Ghostscript fonts. The stock groff that I
> have from Debian is 1.22.4, which does not have a devpdf directory. I have
> 1.23.0 installed myself, and the download file in
> /usr/local/share/groff/1.23.0/font/devpdf does indeed list fonts at
> Ghostscript 9.27, so that must be the source of the error. Which means that
> when it comes to build the man pages, it uses the installed groff rather
> than test-groff. (What I don't understand is how I've been compiling pdfs
> from troff documents with no difficulties using my installed groff, even
> though the download file was pointing at non-existent fonts?)
>
> On Thu, Jul 7, 2022 at 11:30 AM Deri <deri@chuzzlewit.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> On Thursday, 7 July 2022 05:48:33 BST G. Branden Robinson wrote:
>>
>> > 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?
>>
>> One possibility is that somehow it is running the currently installed
>> groff, rather than test-groff, so it would be looking at the download file
>> in /usr/share/groff/1.23.0/font/devpdf rather than the new download just
>> created within the build directory. Please could you have a look in
>> font/devpdf in the build directory to see if the font paths refer to the
>> correct ghostscript version. The download file under the /usr/share/groff
>> directory is likely to contain stale paths to a previous version of
>> ghostscript.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Deri
>>
>> > Regards,
>>
>> > Branden
>>
>>
>>
>
> --
> 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.
>


-- 
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.