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

[Deri James]

Follow-up Comment #69, bug #63808 (project groff):

[comment #67 comment #67:]
> Hi Deri,
> 
> Regarding the %rom% issue, it looks likely to me that the "rom filesystem
built into the executable" <https://ghostscript.com/docs/9.54.0/Use.htm> isn't
really in the executable, but in the libgs9 dynamic shared object instead.  At
20 MB it's way too big to attach on Savannah.
> 
> 
> $ size ~/tmp/gs-solaris10 ~/tmp/libgs.so.9.15-solaris10 
>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
>    3025     236     328    3589     e05 /home/branden/tmp/gs-solaris10
> 4760075 14791376           3368 19554819        12a6203
/home/branden/tmp/libgs.so.9.15-solaris10
> $ objdump -x ~/tmp/libgs.so.9.15-solaris10|grep -F .data|grep gs_romfs
> 00a0cb34 g     O .data  00000004              gs_romfs_buildtime
> 00a16ad8 g     O .data.rel.local        000003f8              gs_romfs
> $ objdump -x /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgs.so.9.53|grep -F .data|grep
gs_romfs || echo NO MATCHES
> NO MATCHES
> $ size /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgs.so.9.53
>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
> 5936697 10509080           3808 16449585         fb0031
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgs.so.9.53
> 
> 
> So that's 14MB of data in the Solaris library, and 10MB in the Debian one.
> 
> 4.3MB happens to be the size of the gs-fonts.tgz file you put up.
> 
> Coincidence?
Ooh excitng. Please could you email to deri.james@chuzzlewit.co.uk (note not
my usual addy, its my work address which should accept large attachments).
> Is there anything I can do to help you root out the data you're looking for?


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