[Build-common-hackers] Bug#614536: cdbs: FTBFS: Error: Cannot open Ghostscript for piped input

Mon Feb 28 22:18:05 UTC 2011

tags #614536 + patch confirmed
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On Tue, Feb 22, 2011, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> > dot -Tps2 -o buildcore.eps buildcore.dot -Gsize='6,10'
> > epstopdf --outfile=buildcore.pdf buildcore.eps
> > epstopdf ($Id: epstopdf.pl 17496 2010-03-18 17:57:31Z karl $) 2.15
> > !!! Error: Cannot open Ghostscript for piped input
> > make[3]: *** [buildcore.pdf] Error 2

 The doc build calls dot -Tps2 which calls epstopdf; epstopdf is in
 texlive-font-utils which is correctly a build-dep, but
 epstopdf calls ghostscript which is only a Recommends of
 texlive-font-utils.  Adding an explicit build-dep on ghostscript fixes
 the FTBFS for me.

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Loïc Minier