[bug #63808] configure gives incorrect information regarding pdf generation

[G. Branden Robinson]

Follow-up Comment #52, bug #63808 (project groff):

Done.  It appears that the search still fails.


checking for URW fonts in Type 1/PFB format... none found
[...]
GNU roff version 1.23.0.rc3.23-5712
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 installation directory prefix    : /home/branden
 C++ compiler and options         : g++ -g -O2 
 use libgroff's memory allocator  : no
 C compiler and options           : gcc -g -O2 
 Perl interpreter version         : 5.32.1
 X11 support                      : disabled
 'groff -l' uses print spooler    : no
 use URW fonts for PDF output     : no
 preconv can use uchardet library : no
 can build groff.dvi, groff.pdf   : no
 tests can use poppler PDF tools  : no
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configure: Buggy version of Ghostscript detected.

  Ghostscript versions 9.00 <= x < 9.54 suffer from a rendering glitch
  that affects the AT&T troff (and groff) special character '\(lh'; see
  <https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=703187>.  If your
  version of Ghostscript has not been patched to fix this problem, you
  may need to work around it in groff documents you render for the
  PostScript (and, for tbl(1) tables, HTML) output devices.
  
configure: URW fonts in Type 1/PFB format were not found.

  groff font description files for the URW fonts, used by the 'gropdf'
  output driver, will not be available.  Use and embedding of fonts from
  the 'U' foundry in PDF documents generated by groff will not be
  possible.
[...]
$ ls -l /usr/share/ghostscript/9.53.3/Resource 
total 40
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 16 03:47 CIDFSubst
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 16 03:47 CIDFont
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   25 Jan  4  2022 CMap -> /var/lib/ghostscript/CMap
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 16 03:47 ColorSpace
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 16 03:47 Decoding
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 16 03:47 Encoding
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 25  2022 Font
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 16 03:47 Font~
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 16 03:47 IdiomSet
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 16 03:47 Init
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 16 03:47 SubstCID
$ ls -l /usr/share/ghostscript/9.53.3/Resource/Font~| head -n 3
total 24
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 48 Jan  4  2022 C059-BdIta ->
../../../../fonts/type1/urw-base35/C059-BdIta.t1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 47 Jan  4  2022 C059-Bold ->
../../../../fonts/type1/urw-base35/C059-Bold.t1
$ ls -l /usr/share/ghostscript/9.53.3/Resource/Font | head -n 3
total 4448
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 152585 May 10  2022 C059-BdIta
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 146014 May 10  2022 C059-Bold


I chrooted anyway.

But the search failed anyway.  I'm not sure why.  I'll instrument the macro in
m4/groff.m4 that searches and see if I can turn something up.  I'm open to
your suggestions as well.


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