Hi Branden, Thanks for taking a look at it.
On 2026-02-10 G. Branden Robinson wrote: > Yes. "INSTALL" is a generic file that gnulib provides as an overview of > the GNU build system. "INSTALL.extra" is the groff-specific supplement, > and it documents the matter of URW fonts. > https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/tree/INSTALL.extra?h=1.24.0.rc3#n142 > >> I think that maybe INSTALL.REPO file might be pertinent? > > That file is aimed at people seeking to build from a Git checkout/ > working copy (which I observe is the procedure you document below). It > incorporates "INSTALL.extra" by reference. > > https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/tree/INSTALL.REPO?h=1.24.0.rc3#n18 > >> Or perhaps the file MORE.STUFF? > > That's not a good place, because it deals with stuff that (roughly) > builds on top of groff, rather than stuff that groff itself builds upon. All right, so it seems there isn't a suitable place for it as of now. But maybe there ought to be a file for something like this, not only for Arch but for whatever quirks there might be with other distros as well. > I _was_ going to say that this should no longer be true as of > 1.24.0.rc3, because there was a bug (reported by Alexis H.) that has > since been fixed... > > _but_, this _exact_ directory name is not in our Autoconf macro > `GROFF_URW_FONTS_CHECK`. Is that really the directory into which Arch > installs these fonts? > > Here's the search path: > > https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/tree/m4/groff.m4?h=1.24.0.rc3#n340 > > Please double-check this. I'm happy to add yet another directory to the > search path (and, as noted in the foregoing file, update "Foundry.in" as > well), but I want to be sure. $ pacman -Ql gsfonts-type1 gsfonts-type1 /usr/ gsfonts-type1 /usr/share/ gsfonts-type1 /usr/share/fonts/ gsfonts-type1 /usr/share/fonts/Type1/ gsfonts-type1 /usr/share/fonts/Type1/a010013l.afm gsfonts-type1 /usr/share/fonts/Type1/a010013l.pfb [...] Regards, Morten
