Re: Problem building latest git source

[Robert Goulding]

I restarted my computer, and now groff is building dvi's and pdf's without complaining that it can't find DESC files (sorry, I didn't note exactly which error message came up before).

Robert.

On Thu, Jul 7, 2022 at 1:13 PM Deri <deri@chuzzlewit.myzen.co.uk> wrote:

On Thursday, 7 July 2022 17:03:50 BST Robert Goulding wrote:

> Sorry to keep up the stream of emails. My newly installed groff 1.23 cannot

> find DESC files for pdf and dvi (but handles ps OK) -- even though those

> files are in fact there in the right place. It seems to be looking for font

> files in the wrong place (perhaps in my stock groff installation?); gropdf

> will only work if I set the font path explicitly with -F

The standard groff font paths are embedded into gropdf when it is built by make. Lines 58-9 should look something like:-

$cfg{GROFF_VERSION}='1.23.0.rc1.2692-2d9e';

$cfg{GROFF_FONT_PATH}='/usr/local/share/groff/site-font:/usr/local/share/groff/1.23.0/font:/usr/lib/font';

Groff itself look for DESC files, so if the message is:-

    cannot load 'DESC' description file for device '%1'

groff can't find it. But if the message is:-

    failed to open device description file 'DESC'

it has come from gropdf.

It will help to know which message you are seeing.

Cheers

Deri

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Robert Goulding

Director, John J. Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values;

Director, Program in History and Philosophy of Science;

Assoc. Professor, Program of Liberal Studies,

Fellow, Medieval Institute,

University of Notre Dame.