Re: Problem building latest git source

[Deri]

On Thursday, 7 July 2022 17:03:50 BST Robert Goulding wrote:
> Sorry to keep up the stream of emails. My newly installed groff 1.23 cannot
> find DESC files for pdf and dvi (but handles ps OK) -- even though those
> files are in fact there in the right place. It seems to be looking for font
> files in the wrong place (perhaps in my stock groff installation?); gropdf
> will only work if I set the font path explicitly with -F

The standard groff font paths are embedded into gropdf when it is built by 
make. Lines 58-9 
should look something like:-

$cfg{GROFF_VERSION}='1.23.0.rc1.2692-2d9e';
$cfg{GROFF_FONT_PATH}='/usr/local/share/groff/site-font:/usr/local/share/groff/1.23.0/
font:/usr/lib/font';

Groff itself look for DESC files, so if the message is:-

    cannot load 'DESC' description file for device '%1'

groff can't find it. But if the message is:-

    failed to open device description file 'DESC'

it has come from gropdf.

It will help to know which message you are seeing.

Cheers 

Deri