Re: [Nasm-devel] NASM 2.13 released

[H. P. A. <hp...@zy...>]

On 05/02/17 18:01, anonymous coward wrote:
>> You are missing the Perl module Font::TTF, and it looks like you are also missing asciidoc+xmlto.
> 
> since only nasm wants these, I'm unlikely to
> fiddle with them... and in a corporate setting
> folks might be unable to convince admins to
> permit and/or support them
> 
> can we go back to not requiring these? if not,
> then switch to pre-built documentation similar
> to pre-built insns.dat stuff... plus dependency
> checks/warnings during make

It's not really possible, because modern font files don't have separate
font metrics files -- which quite frankly were an insane idea to begin
with.

None of these should be necessary to install as root/Administrator; if
that is the case on any platform we should fix it.

Font::TTF, like other Perl modules, is available from CPAN which has a
standard way of installing, if it isn't available with your distribution.

In Fedora 25, these packages seem to depend on Font::TTF:

perl(Font::TTF::Font) is needed by fontpackages-tools-1.44-17.fc24.noarch
perl(Font::TTF::Font) is needed by perl-Text-PDF-0.29a-20.fc25.noarch
perl(Font::TTF::Font) >= 0.23 is needed by (installed)
perl-Text-PDF-0.29a-20.fc25.noarch
perl(Font::TTF::Font) is needed by (installed)
perl-PDF-API2-2.031-1.fc25.noarch

On other Unix systems there is a "cpan" command that installs with Perl.

StrawberryPerl for Windows comes with a CPAN install client GUI; not
sure if it also has the "cpan" command.

	-hpa