Hi Deri, At 2022-11-16T22:34:43+0000, Deri wrote: > You have told me that this fixes the build problem that gropdf could > not find the freeeuro.pfa file, although it works once installed, and > I am sure it does fix the build issue, but it is a very big hammer to > crush a small walnut! It even alters the installed environment > completely unnecessary to fix a build issue.
While I was there I noticed that it was possible to achieve a decoupling of devps and devpdf support. That seemed worth doing for the sake of cleanliness and orthogonality. > I diagnosed the problem was because the path to freeeuro.pfa used a > path of ../devps and because of a quirk in the build system the > freeeuro files were never promoted to the devps build directory but > installed directly from the source directory. All that was required > was for the freeeuro files be treated exactly the same as the > symbolsl.pfa file, i.e. promoted during build and then installed from > build. This would be a very minor tweak to the devps build, I certainly don't mind having a look at that, so I will. > rather than changing multiple files in the devpdf directory. > > I can't see the benefit in all these changes. I don't see why "rm -rf /usr/share/groff/1.23.0/font/devps" should cause "groff -Tpdf" to fail or behave differently in any way. Do you? Regards, Branden
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