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

Jonas Smedegaard dr at jones.dk
Tue Mar 1 02:03:10 UTC 2011


On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 11:18:05PM +0100, Loïc Minier wrote:
>tags #614536 + patch confirmed
>stop
>
>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.

Thanks!

This, however, will cause a circular build-dependency.

Slitting off cdbs-doc as a separate source package could avoid that.


  - Jonas

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