Re: Groff-1.22.1: No pdfdocdir created

[Werner LEMBERG]

> I'm getting the following error when running 'make install' from
> groff-1.22.1: [...]

Actually, there are a lot of errors already during `make' which should
cause an abort.  Reason are missing fonts, but it's not clear to me
how to handle this situation gracefully.  I've CCed Deri, and
hopefully he can find a proper solution.

If you want a quick fix, please install the URW PostScript fonts
together with its metric files (this is, fonts like `URW Gothic' or
`URW Bookman' which usually have file names like `a010035l.{pfb,afm}'
or `b018015l.{pfb,afm}).

Deri, in Matthew's original report
(http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-groff/2012-12/msg00016.html)
you can find the complete log file.  It seems that the failure of
finding the URW fonts breaks gropdf completely so that it can't find
*any* font.

Another (minor) issue is warning messages like

  Warning: line 28:
    Unable to locate font 'URWGothicL-Demi!a010015l.pfb' on the given path(s)

The string `URWGothicL-Demi!a010015l.pfb' doesn't denote a valid font
name.


  Happy New Year!

    Werner