Re: Problem building latest git source

[Robert Goulding]

I restarted my computer, and now groff is building dvi's and pdf's without
complaining that it can't find DESC files (sorry, I didn't note exactly
which error message came up before).

Robert.

On Thu, Jul 7, 2022 at 1:13 PM Deri <deri@chuzzlewit.myzen.co.uk> wrote:

> 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
>
>
>

-- 
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.