Re: [Groff] pdfroff broken?

[Keith Marshall]

On Wednesday 01 March 2006 2:20 pm, Larry Kollar wrote:
> Running "make" on the CVS, I get this:
>
> [everything OK up to here]
> rm -f pdfmark.pdf
> export GROFF_COMMAND_PREFIX; GROFF_COMMAND_PREFIX=''; export
> GROFF_BIN_DIR;
> GROFF_BIN_DIR=/Users/larry/Projects/groff/src/roff/groff; export
> GROFF_BIN_PATH; GROFF_BIN_PATH=`echo /Users/larry/Projects/
> groff/src/roff/groff /Users/larry/Projects/groff/src/roff/troff
> /Users/larry/ Projects/groff/src/devices/grops | sed -e 's|  *|:|g'`;
> ./pdfroff -F/Users/larry/ Projects/groff/font
> -F/Users/larry/Projects/groff/font -M. -M/Users/larry/
> Projects/groff/tmac -M/Users/larry/Projects/groff/tmac -dpaper=A4
> -P-pA4 -mspdf --stylesheet=./cover.ms pdfmark.ms >pdfmark.pdf
> AFPL Ghostscript 8.53: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
>
> larry% ls -l contrib/pdfmark/pdfmark.pdf
> -rw-r--r--   1 larry  staff  1955 Mar  1 09:14
> contrib/pdfmark/pdfmark.pdf
>
> The PDF has no content.

Hmm.  I can't reproduce this.  From a freshly updated CVS working copy, 
this afternoon:

make[2]: Entering directory 
`/home/keith/sandbox/build/groff-cvs/contrib/pdfmark'
rm -f pdfroff
sed -f /home/keith/sandbox/build/groff-cvs/arch/misc/shdeps.sed \
    -e "s|@VERSION@|1.19.3|" \
    -e "s|@GROFF_AWK_INTERPRETERS@|gawk mawk nawk awk|" \
    -e "s|@GROFF_GHOSTSCRIPT_INTERPRETERS@|gs gswin32c gsos2|" \
    -e "s|@GROFF_BIN_DIR@|/usr/local/bin|" 
/home/keith/sandbox/cvs/groff/contrib/pdfmark/pdfroff.sh >pdfroff
chmod +x pdfroff
if test -f 
/home/keith/sandbox/build/groff-cvs/../../cvs/groff/doc/gnu.eps; then \
  cp /home/keith/sandbox/build/groff-cvs/../../cvs/groff/doc/gnu.eps . ; \
elif test -f /home/keith/sandbox/build/groff-cvs/doc/gnu.eps; then \
  cp /home/keith/sandbox/build/groff-cvs/doc/gnu.eps . ; \
else \
  xpmtoppm 
/home/keith/sandbox/build/groff-cvs/../../cvs/groff/doc/gnu.xpm | 
pnmdepth 15 | \
    pnmtops -noturn -rle >gnu.eps ; \
fi
rm -f pdfmark.pdf
export GROFF_COMMAND_PREFIX; GROFF_COMMAND_PREFIX=''; export 
GROFF_BIN_DIR; 
GROFF_BIN_DIR=/home/keith/sandbox/build/groff-cvs/src/roff/groff; export 
GROFF_BIN_PATH; GROFF_BIN_PATH=`echo 
/home/keith/sandbox/build/groff-cvs/src/roff/groff 
/home/keith/sandbox/build/groff-cvs/src/roff/troff 
/home/keith/sandbox/build/groff-cvs/src/devices/grops | sed -e 's|  
*|:|g'`; ./pdfroff -F/home/keith/sandbox/build/groff-cvs/font 
-F/home/keith/sandbox/build/groff-cvs/../../cvs/groff/font 
-M/home/keith/sandbox/cvs/groff/contrib/pdfmark 
-M/home/keith/sandbox/build/groff-cvs/tmac 
-M/home/keith/sandbox/build/groff-cvs/../../cvs/groff/tmac -dpaper=A4 
-P-pA4 -mspdf 
--stylesheet=/home/keith/sandbox/cvs/groff/contrib/pdfmark/cover.ms 
/home/keith/sandbox/cvs/groff/contrib/pdfmark/pdfmark.ms >pdfmark.pdf
Making pdfroff.n from 
/home/keith/sandbox/cvs/groff/contrib/pdfmark/pdfroff.man
make[2]: Leaving directory 
`/home/keith/sandbox/build/groff-cvs/contrib/pdfmark'

address@hidden groff-cvs]$ uname -a
Linux banshee.localdomain 2.4.18-6mdk #1 Fri Mar 15 02:59:08 CET 2002 
i686 unknown

address@hidden groff-cvs]$ gs --version
8.14

address@hidden groff-cvs]$ ls -l contrib/pdfmark/
total 220
-rw-r--r--    1 keith    users       59608 Mar  4 16:02 gnu.eps
-rw-r--r--    1 keith    users      116519 Mar  4 16:02 pdfmark.pdf
-rwxr-xr-x    1 keith    users       17873 Mar  4 16:02 pdfroff
-rw-r--r--    1 keith    users       13284 Mar  4 16:02 pdfroff.n

> MacOSX 10.4.5, configure line is "./configure --prefix=/usr
> --mandir=/usr/ share/man" (adding "CXX=g++2" is not required for
> 10.4.x) if that makes a difference.

FWIW, I configured in a separate directory, with:

address@hidden groff-cvs]$ ../../cvs/groff/configure -C PAGE=A4

I don't think the CXX issue can be relevant here; this failure occurs a 
long way after all compilation steps have been completed.  I've seen 
similar GhostScript failure messages before; a possible cause is that it 
is presented with an *empty* input file, (or stream).  Can you do some 
debugging?  Maybe the sed filter, right at the end of pdfroff, is somehow 
swallowing all the gs input.

Sorry, I can't be more helpful with the limited info available.

Regards,
Keith.