Suggesting the following patch to the a2ps ebuild to make it print Japanese text as well. I also include a patch to make a2ps send to stdout by default. For the reasoning behind it see: http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-a2ps/2001-05/msg00000.html Of course, I cannot make the devs apply this stdout patch, that I so much desire ;)
Created attachment 14363 [details, diff] a2ps-japanese.diff Adds a Japanese patch to a2ps if cjk is in USE
Created attachment 14364 [details, diff] a2ps-stdout.diff A file that should go in app-text/a2ps/files/ It makes a2ps print to stdout by default. See http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-a2ps/2001-05/msg00000.html for details why.
Thanks. These two patches are now in CVS. I added >=sys-apps/sed-4 to DEPEND since not all sed has -i option and Japanese README. Please make sure to add >=sys-apps/sed-4 when you use sed with -i option. Btw, do you know how to stop ./configure saying an error? Japanese support patch rewrites Makefile.in and configure.in so if cjk is enabled ./configure tries to recreate configure script and so on but it fails because the author of a2ps seems to use a hacked version of autoconf. It can be compiled even though it complains about the error, but I'm not so happy with the error message ;(
So that's why I see lots of "cp file file.old; sed < file.old > file" in ebuilds. It may be better to change the ebuild to use two files for sed-ing and change the sed dependency back to the more liberal one. About the autoconf problem -- way out of my expertise.
The new ebuild with Japanese support (4.13b-r5) fails to build on my system. I have cjk support in my USE flags although I don't need it directly. I've reverted back to 4.13b-r4. I can do some tests if you want, after I finish my emerge --emptytree (which is what brought the problem to light). So, for me the status of the ebuild is NOT 'Resolved, Fixed'.
Okay, what does your emerge log say? I've tested the ebuild on both stable and unstable x86 with combinations of +/-nls, +/-tetex, +/-cjk, but it never failed to emerge. I guess there might be a problem with autoconf/automake. Please post the output of emerge a2ps, emerge info and emerge -pv a2ps.
It seems to be a problem with automake / autoconf indeed, but it only occurs when I have cjk support on. When it is off, there is no problem. By googling on 'AC_CHECK_MEMBERS a2ps' I found that this location in configure has been a problem in the past, but I cannot see what's wrong as I don't have any experience with autoconf I will add the outputs of the commands you requested to the Attachments list.
Created attachment 15927 [details] Output of 'emerge a2ps' with +cjk
Created attachment 15928 [details] Output of 'emerge info' with +cjk
Created attachment 15929 [details] Output of 'emerge -pv a2ps' with +cjk
Thanks. After all, I think a2ps should be rewritten to use more recent autoconf. For the moment I added a patch to not run autoconf, so please emerge sync and try it.
I spotted a typo in my attachment #14363 [details, diff] that made its way in a2ps-4.13b-r5.ebuild and a2ps-4.13c.ebuild The "xpatch $PATCHES | die" line should not have a pipe (`|'), but an "or" (`||') I hope it is OK to simply reopen this bug and not file a separate one.
I corrected that when I committed the patch but I didn't write it explicitly in bugzilla. (Sorry if you haven't noticed it) Do you have any problem other than that?
I don't believe me... What was it called when you start seeing stuff that's not there?
