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Re: devpdf compilation problems: GS Path (with GS 9.02 on Mac[Ports]), f


From: Deri James
Subject: Re: devpdf compilation problems: GS Path (with GS 9.02 on Mac[Ports]), font/devpdf/Makefile.sub
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 17:32:30 +0100
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On Wednesday 03 Aug 2011 11:18:09 Bernhard Fisseni wrote:
> Good morning!
> 
> I tried to compile CVS groff with devpdf and had the following problems; I
> hope I haven't missed any important instructions. (I probably did.)
> 
> - In fonts/devpdf/Makefile.sub, the files list is supposedly gathered from
> $(DESTDIR), which seemed surprising. As $(srcdir) was unset/empty, but
> '../devps' seemed to contain the desired files, I changed Makefile
> accordingly.  See attached patch.
> 
> - When installing, BuildFoundries looked for GS/URW fonts
> (/opt/local/share/ghostscript/9.02/Resource/Font/, no metrics files) and
> also for the metrics, which were not present in $GSpath (9.02 installed
> through Macports). I had to add "/opt/local/share/fonts/urw-fonts" to
> $GSpath, see attached patch.  This is a hack, but even when configured
> with '--without-gs', the installation process insisted on building the U-*
> fonts, which need the files from the above path. Maybe a search procedure
> should be included in configure? (Without the GS search path taken from
> 'gs -h', some fonts are not found, either: URWGothicL-*, URWBookmanL-*,
> NimbusSanL-*, CenturySchL-*, URWPalladioL-Bold-*).
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Bernhard

Hello Bernhard, 

Many thanks for your bug report. I quickly became aware of several deficiencies 
in my gropdf buld strategy! These include problems with the 9.? versions of 
ghostscript, when builddir != srcdir, no proper checking of required 
dependencies (perl), and failures on non-linux installs. (Quite a list!!)

I'd be very grateful to receive a copy of the devpdf/download file which was 
built on your mac, a directory listing of /opt/local/share/urw-fonts, and the 
output from "gs -h". Unfortunately I don't have access to a mac to test 
myself.

Many thanks for your help.

Deri



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