Re: Short installation guide for Arch Linux users.

On 2026-02-10 G. Branden Robinson wrote:

> Hi Morten,
>
> At 2026-02-10T19:15:58+0100, Morten Bo Johansen wrote:
>> Thanks for taking a look at it.
>
> My pleasure!
>
>> 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
> [snip]
>> All right, so it seems there isn't a suitable place for it as of now.
>
> No, there is, and I linked to it--see above.  I'll quote from the cited
> line number forward.

[...]

I am aware of that, but I do think that some file where all of these little
issues that various distros may have in performing a full and flawless
installation of Groff from source might be a welcome addition. Unless I
misunderstand you, you do not mean that my howto should go into the
INSTALL.extra file?

>> 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.
>
> The "MANIFEST" file in the top-level directory of the groff repository
> and distribution archive attempts to explain the purpose of the files
> and directories within the distribution archive.  ("Repo-only" files
> that are not "distributed" are not described.)

But that would not really help me in solving the issues I faced with
installing Groff from source on an Arch system. Hands-on descriptions of
solutions to concrete problems are always nice. It saves the user a lot of
time. E.g. manual pages without an "Examples" section are inadequate, IMO.
There is the file, PROBLEMS, of course. Couldn't that be a proper
destination for something like this?

>> $ 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
>>   [...]
>
> Okay.  I'm convinced.  :)
>
> I'll update "groff.m4" and "Foundry.in" accordingly.

Great, thank you.

Regards,
Morten