[bug #60613] configure script should use our BuildFoundries.pl instead of gs -h to locate URW fonts

[G. Branden Robinson]

URL:
  <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?60613>

                 Summary: configure script should use our BuildFoundries.pl
instead of gs -h to locate URW fonts
                 Project: GNU troff
            Submitted by: gbranden
            Submitted on: Sun 16 May 2021 02:21:01 AM UTC
                Category: None
                Severity: 1 - Wish
              Item Group: Build/Installation
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
         Planned Release: None

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Details:

As part of fixing bug #60604, I enhanced our configure script to recognize
newer names for the URW base 35 fonts, to improve their chances of being
correctly located.


commit 39de1019dec24631f204f72a434b62a56f384b9c
Author: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
Date:   Sat May 15 09:42:01 2021 +1000

    m4/groff.m4 (GROFF_URW_FONTS): Match newer names.
    
    * m4/groff.m4 (GROFF_URW_FONTS): Update configure script check for URW
      fonts to recognize recent releases of the URW Base 35 fonts from
      Artifex Software.  Look for the AR (Arial roman equivalent) font under
      all of the names recognized by fonts/devpdf/Foundry.in.
    
    Also tighten and generalize wording of checking message; these days it
    is misleading to suggest that people must find fonts with a .pfb suffix.


However this was duplicative of Deri's efforts to do the same thing inside the
Foundry.in file and BuildFoundries.pl script (both under font/devpdf).

Presumably we can call scripts already in this distribution tree from our
configure script.  See if this is so, and if we can use BuildFoundries.pl's
--dirURW (with any passed-in --with-urw-fonts-dir" argument) and --check
options to replace part of the GROFF_URW_FONTS macro.




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