Re: [groff] 1.22.4.rc4 - Final RC before official 1.22.4

[Bertrand Garrigues]

Hi Ingo,

Thanks for all your tests !

On Fri, Nov 30 2018 at 05:33:11 PM, Ingo Schwarze <address@hidden> wrote:
[...]
> However, there are problems on Oracle Solaris 11:
[...]
> checking whether URW fonts in pfb format are available...
>   grep: illegal option -- A
>   Usage: grep [-c|-l|-q] -bhinsvw pattern file . . .
>   no
>
> I suspect that the reason for this failure is in m4/groff.m4:
>   AC_DEFUN([GROFF_URW_FONTS],
>     [AC_MSG_CHECKING([whether URW fonts in pfb format are available])
>     _list_paths=`gs -h | grep -A 16 "Search path" | grep "^[ ]" | tr : ' ' `
>
> Here, bare "grep" is used even though ../configure said this earlier:
>
>   checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/ggrep
>   checking for egrep... /usr/bin/ggrep -E
>
> Consequently, no URW fonts are found even though i see these files
> on the system, among others:

This line (of mine) is quite ugly:

  _list_paths=`gs -h | grep -A 16 "Search path" | grep "^[ ]" | tr : ' ' `

And as option '-A' is not portable I will replace it wih a 'awk'
script.  I'll work on it tomorrow.

Regards,

Bertrand