GhostScript not available for hp2ps tests
When I run validate --slow a number of tests fail, apparently erroneously, because GhostScript not available for hp2ps tests.
I don't know why this is the case (Ghostscript is installed on my ubuntu; perhaps there are some developer libraries / headers that also need to be installed, but I don't recall seeing anything in the documentation about that).
The message "GhostScript not available for hp2ps tests" seems to come from a Python script that Simon Marlow produced in 2002. Unfortunately, there are two places where the message could have been generated.
There are probably 2 ways forward:
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a temporary bodge: taking the running of those tests that depend on hp2ps out of validation, in the same way that certain tests are not run when a dependent library is unavailable
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figuring out why the python script fails to understand that a ghostscript is actually present and fixing that
Trac metadata
| Trac field | Value |
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| Version | 8.6.1 |
| Type | Bug |
| TypeOfFailure | OtherFailure |
| Priority | normal |
| Resolution | Unresolved |
| Component | Test Suite |
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| CC | Simonmar |
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