On Tue, 2026-04-21 at 14:10 -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > At 2026-04-21T10:01:40+0100, Richard Purdie wrote: > > We are seeing occasional failures for eqn being missing when > > building > > mom examples, e.g.: > > "We" == the Yocto Project?
Yes, sorry, I should have been clearer. The Yocto Project has seen this a few times in our CI builds recently. > > > groff-1.24.0/groff: error: couldn't exec eqn: Permission denied > > > pdfmom: fatal error: groff-1.24.0/test-groff exited with status > > > 24 > > > make[2]: *** [Makefile:19256: contrib/mom/examples/slide- > > > demo.pdf] Error 1 > > > > It may find eqn from the host system if installed too. > > Hmm, yes, that's not good. > > > Fix the build dependencies to add eqn, pic, tbl and preconv since > > a quick strace indicates them all being used here. > > Yes, and the definition of the `MOMPDFMOM` macro earlier in the same > Automake script makes their use explicit. > > Good catch! Thank you! You can expect to see this fix in my next > push. Thanks, I figured this was the easiest way to explain/illustrate the issue and propose a fix for at least some elements of it. I did wonder if there were other places where dependencies might be missing but I'm not well placed to understand those. Thanks for looking at it! Cheers, Richard
