Follow-up Comment #5, bug #60604 (project groff):
Hi Dave,
[comment #3 comment #3:]
> Branden, do you have an opinion on the related issue brought up in bug
#55300? I don't know whether Ghostscript is required; I've never
installed/run groff on a system without it.
Ghostscript appears to be optional, but our configure script does gripe pretty
hard if it's not found.
configure: WARNING: missing program:
The program
'gs'
cannot be found in the PATH.
Consequently, groff's HTML backend (grohtml) will not work properly;
therefore, it will neither be possible to prepare, nor to install,
documentation in HTML format.
configure: WARNING: missing program:
The program 'gs' cannot be found in the PATH.
Consequently, groff's PDF formatter (pdfroff) will not work properly;
therefore, it will neither be possible to prepare, nor to install,
documentation and most of the examples in PDF format.
One will also likely get the squawkage discussed in this ticket.
configure:
No URW fonts in Type 1/PFB format were found on your system; URW font
generation for groff's 'gropdf' output driver will not work properly.
You can obtain the URW base 35 fonts from their GitHub project.
As of this writing (2021-05-15), you can find them in the 'fonts'
directory of the following archives (choose one).
https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/urw-base35-fonts/archive/refs/
tags/20200910.zip
https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/urw-base35-fonts/archive/refs/
tags/20200910.tar.gz
You may wish to check for a newer release.
https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/urw-base35-fonts/releases
By default, groff will look for these fonts in the search path shown
by the 'gs -h' command and in the two directories
/usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/
and
/opt/local/share/fonts/urw-fonts/
(these locations are specified in font/devpdf/Foundry.in). You will
need to re-run the 'configure' script after installing these fonts.
Alternatively, you can pass the option '--with-urw-fonts-dir=DIR'
to 'configure' to look for them in the directory DIR you specify.
Quasi-relatedly, IIRC a few days ago Werner pointed out that we should add a
versioned check for Ghostscript so we can steer people to the left-pointing
hand glyph bugfix, which recently made it into a GS release.
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