Re: Problem building latest git source

[G. Branden Robinson]

[looping in groff@gnu]

Hi Robert,

At 2022-07-06T17:34:49-0400, Robert Goulding wrote:
> I checked out the latest source and tried building it on my Chromebook
> (i.e., Debian 11 (bullseye)). The compile stopped when it tried to
> build the pdf of all the man pages:
> 
> make[1]: Entering directory '/home/rdgoulding/groff-git'
>   GROFF    doc/groff-man-pages.pdf
> gropdf:src/utils/addftinfo/addftinfo.1: fatal error: failed to open
> '/usr/share/ghostscript/9.27/Resource/Font/NimbusRoman-Italic'
> make[1]: *** [Makefile:12695: doc/groff-man-pages.pdf] Error 1
> make[1]: *** Deleting file 'doc/groff-man-pages.pdf'
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/rdgoulding/groff-git'
> make: *** [Makefile:5701: all] Error 2
> 
> The odd thing is that I have ghostscript version 9.53.3 installed, not
> 9.27, and the font it can't find is at
> /usr/share/ghostscript/9.53.3/Resource/Font/NimbusRoman-Italic

I hadn't built in my bullseye chroot lately because I stopped fiddling
with the build system for a while (apart from adding regression tests),
but I too have a problem, though it differs from yours.

In my chroot, the BuildFoundries script is not locating the 'afmtodit'
command (which is one of the build artifacts).  This happens with both
in-tree and out-of-tree builds.  My bullseye chroot also uses
Ghostscript 9.53.3, and these fonts _are_ found.  Please find part of my
'configure' output below.

Nothing in the build hard-codes the Ghostscript version number used in
the font search path, so I am wondering if you haven't forgotten to
re-run 'configure'.  It might help to 'make distclean' first...but I
wouldn't be surprised if you hit the same afmtodit problem I did.  I'll
look at BuildFoundries and see if I can spot an error, but Deri's eyes
will be better than mine here.

In the below, you might want to see how your 'configure' output compares
to mine for the "gs version" and "URW fonts" checks.

Deri, can you throw any light on this stuff?

Regards,
Branden

checking for gs version with good left sidebearing handling... got 9.53.3 
(buggy)
checking whether we are using the GNU C Library >= 2.1 or uClibc... (cached) yes
checking for URW fonts in Type 1/PFB format... found in 
/usr/share/fonts/type1/urw-base35/
checking that generated files are newer than configure... done
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating test-groff
config.status: creating src/include/config.h
config.status: executing depfiles commands

GNU roff version 1.23.0.rc1.2692-2d9e
----------------------------------------------------------------------
 installation directory prefix    : /usr/local
 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     : yes
 preconv can use uchardet library : no
 can build groff.dvi, groff.pdf   : no
 tests can use poppler PDF tools  : no
----------------------------------------------------------------------
configure: The uchardet library was not found.

  The 'preconv' preprocessor program will be unable to attempt automatic
  inference of an input file's character encoding.  See the preconv(1)
  man page.
  
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: The program 'psselect' was not found in $PATH.

  Consequently, groff's HTML output driver, 'grohtml', will not work
  properly.  It will not be possible to prepare or install
  groff-generated documentation in HTML format.

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