Re: [groff] Upgrade to 1.22.4 breaks PDF font

[John Gardner]

*> (although groff was installed from a pre-built package (or "bottle")),
the only options were the "--prefix" option and "--without-x".*

There used to be three other options as well:

--with-gropdf  (Enable PDF output support)
--with-grohtml  (Enable HTML output support (implies --with-gropdf))
--with-gpresent  (Install macros for the presentations document format)


However, these were removed last October, for uncertain reasons:

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/commit/da1975623922cf2d64ced525ddee7e36511d42ab

Presumably, the switches were axed because they were wishy-washy. All that
--with-gropdf did was add Ghostscript as a dependency, and the post-install
notes had this message:

*Attempting to use PDF or HTML output support without using --with-gropdf
> or --with-grohtml may result in errors*


You might want to report this upstream if the switches are still important.

On Fri, 22 Feb 2019 at 03:38, Richard Morse <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Feb 19, 2019, at 05:58 PM, Colin Watson <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> It's likely that this is a bug in the Homebrew formula: you can confirm
> this by looking for "URW fonts for pdf" in the configure output (it
> should say "yes", but I bet it says "no"). The formula needs to make
> sure that whatever provides a010013l.pfb is installed when groff is
> built.
>
> Hi! As far as I can tell (although groff was installed from a pre-built
> package (or "bottle")), the only options were the "--prefix" option and
> "--without-x".
>
> I'm assuming that the build for the package was done in a (semi-)clean
> environment, so there probably weren't any extra fonts available.
>
> However, the fonts are available for the devps device -- does this get the
> font information from a different source than devpdf?
>
> Thanks,
> Ricky
>