From b30f08f4cd5791a9895df07c1acb061518c73cbe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Colin Watson Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2014 13:13:22 +0000 Subject: Display more helpful output when failing to load a device If the device is known to be one of the devices in the groff binary package rather than groff-base, refer the user to that. Forwarded: not-needed Last-Update: 2023-07-08 Patch-Name: load-desc-failure.patch --- src/roff/groff/groff.cpp | 15 ++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/roff/groff/groff.cpp b/src/roff/groff/groff.cpp index 4eb732969..d4cb3c122 100644 --- a/src/roff/groff/groff.cpp +++ b/src/roff/groff/groff.cpp @@ -378,9 +378,18 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) } font::set_unknown_desc_command_handler(handle_unknown_desc_command); const char *desc = font::load_desc(); - if (0 /* nullptr */ == desc) - fatal("cannot load 'DESC' description file for device '%1'", - device); + if (0 /* nullptr */ == desc) { + if (strcmp(device, "X100") == 0 || strcmp(device, "X100-12") == 0 || + strcmp(device, "X75") == 0 || strcmp(device, "X75-12") == 0 || + strcmp(device, "dvi") == 0 || strcmp(device, "html") == 0 || + strcmp(device, "lbp") == 0 || strcmp(device, "lj4") == 0) + fatal("cannot load 'DESC' description file for device '%1' " + "(try installing the 'groff' package?)", + device); + else + fatal("cannot load 'DESC' description file for device '%1'", + device); + } if (need_postdriver && (0 /* nullptr */ == postdriver)) fatal_with_file_and_line(desc, 0, "device description file missing" " 'postpro' directive");