Follow-up Comment #13, bug #68060 (group groff): At 2026-02-20T11:54:23-0500, Deri James wrote: > Follow-up Comment #12, bug #68060 (group groff): > > The default foundry does not use/require AFMs, because we use the > existing groff fonts from devps, i.e. no running of afmtodit. The U > foundry requires AFMs because we run afmtodit to generate groff fonts > with the extended glyph repertoire.
Ah, thanks. That makes sense. The font descriptions copied from the
grops font directory already contain everything gropdf would need for
the Adobe base 35.
BTW, this following will look familiar to you, but I thought it worth
recording in this ticket.
Here's the mysterious fourth host configuration working as intended.
$ ./configure --without-gs
--with-urw-fonts-dir=/usr/share/fonts/type1/urw-base35/
...
GNU roff version 1.24.0.rc3.68-60a47 configuration summary
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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
Ghostscript command : missing
URW fonts directory : /usr/share/fonts/type1/urw-base35/
gropdf service level : full
X11 support : enabled
X11 app defaults directory : /usr/local/lib/X11/app-defaults
default paper format : letter
'groff -l' uses print spooler : lpr
preconv can use uchardet library : yes
can build groff.{info,html,txt} : yes
can build groff.{dvi,pdf} : yes
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