do you have ghostscript installed?  if not, NOTABUG, though we should probably
fail softer.

No I don't have Ghostscript, but I didn't have ghostscript when I built from cvs
last week and I never got this error.  Is there a way for me not to build the
hardcopy docs?

yep.  from xorgsite.def:

/*
 * To disable building some document formats, uncomment some of these.
 *
#define BuildLinuxDocText       NO
#define BuildLinuxDocHtml       NO
#define BuildLinuxDocPS         NO
 */

stick those in your config/cf/host.def

The build no longer assumes that ghostscript is installed, so those docs won't
be built.  I don't think the loss of these docs by default is worse than having
the build fail for lots of people.

Note: we need a better docs solution.

(In reply to comment #4)
> The build no longer assumes that ghostscript is installed, so those docs won't
> be built.  I don't think the loss of these docs by default is worse than having
> the build fail for lots of people.

|HasGhostScript| also controls _RUNTIME_ functionality of the tree, not only
docmentation stuff. Short: Something is broken now... ;-((

Taking myself...

Created attachment 533 [details] [review]
Patch for 2004-07-27-trunk

The patch adds a new switch |BuildPDFdocs| which can be set to |NO| when PDF
documents should not be generated for some reason.

Patch checked-in...

/cvs/xorg/xc/ChangeLog,v  <--  ChangeLog
new revision: 1.141; previous revision: 1.140
/cvs/xorg/xc/config/cf/FreeBSD.cf,v  <--  FreeBSD.cf
new revision: 1.9; previous revision: 1.8
/cvs/xorg/xc/config/cf/Imake.tmpl,v  <--  Imake.tmpl
new revision: 1.6; previous revision: 1.5
/cvs/xorg/xc/config/cf/NetBSD.cf,v  <--  NetBSD.cf
new revision: 1.5; previous revision: 1.4
/cvs/xorg/xc/config/cf/linux.cf,v  <--  linux.cf
new revision: 1.10; previous revision: 1.9
Mailing the commit message to xorg-commit@pdx.freedesktop.org...

... marking bug as FIXED.

Please don't add both of my email addresses to bugs.

I disagree with the fix here.  I feel that it is incorrect to be setting
HasGhostScript to YES when that is not true.  OK, it changes runtime behavior,
but will whatever's affected work with ghostscript not being around if it's set
to YES?  If so, then that shouldn't be under the HasGhostscript option, and the
HasGhostscript option should still reflect whether the system in fact has
ghostscript, which should be NO by default.

Needless to say, this will be fixed in FreeBSD, even if my commits get stomped
in CVS.

(In reply to comment #9)
> Please don't add both of my email addresses to bugs.

Sorry for that...

> I disagree with the fix here.  I feel that it is incorrect to be setting
> HasGhostScript to YES when that is not true.  OK, it changes runtime behavior,
> but will whatever's affected work with ghostscript not being around if it's 
> set
> to YES?  If so, then that shouldn't be under the HasGhostscript option, and 
> the
> HasGhostscript option should still reflect whether the system in fact has
> ghostscript, which should be NO by default.

The settings in Imake usually define what the "common" installation has installed.
When I install SuSE Linux I _always_ have Ghostscript. When I install Redhat
Linux I always have Ghostscript, too. Same applies to Mandrake. And AFAIK
NetBSD, too.
Sure, there is always a way to deinstall it, but then this isn't a "default" OS
installation anymore.

> Needless to say, this will be fixed in FreeBSD, even if my commits get stomped
> in CVS.

We need a consens here. 
Questions:
1. Should I undo the change for FreeBSD again ?
2. Does FreeBSD have Ghostscript installed by default ?

FreeBSD definitely doesn't have Ghostscript installed by default.  NetBSD
doesn't either, according to folks on #netbsd.  I don't think you could say that
it's default on Debian either, though it's probably more common because of
people installing predefined package sets.

I just wanted to clarify the problem I was having.  I have these switches set in
my host.def:

#define BuildLinuxDocText       NO
#define BuildLinuxDocHtml       NO
#define BuildLinuxDocPS         NO

And it still seems to be trying to create the gs docs.  I've never had gs
installed.  Just for reference I run Linux from Scratch.

Fixed HasGhostScript (again) for the BSDs.  Left Linux alone.