On Monday 25 April 2005 8:11 pm, Larry Jones wrote: > Werner LEMBERG writes: > > Perhaps you can try to use `strace' or a similar program. Then you > > can check where the files are searched. > > Good idea! > > For reference, here's the command line from make (ktrace is BSD/OS's > version of strace): > [ command snipped ] > > groff itself works fine, the first place it looks is in the directory > specified by -F on the command line, the file exists and is opened > successfully: > [ ktrace output snipped ] > But when it forks and execs grn, grn doesn't pay any attention to the > command line font directories, it only looks in the default places and > then complains that it can't find the DESC file: > [ ktrace output snipped ] > > Likewise, when it forks and execs troff, troff doesn't pay any attention > to the command line font directories and only looks in the standard > places: > [ ktrace output snipped ] > > It appears that groff doesn't pass the command line font directories on > directly but rather sets an environment variable ($GROFF_FONT_PATH). > That variable does seem to be set correctly for both grn and troff, but > they don't seem to be paying any attention to it. ...
This would appear to be the bug then; strange that it only seems to show up on BSD, but that could be a red herring. Obviously we need to fix this properly, but as a temporary work around you could try a `make install' now (as root); you don't yet have a complete build, but you *do* have enough to get the binaries, font files and basic macro files into their default locations. Then go back and do `make' again, to complete the build; the DESC file should now be found, because the interim `make install' will have put it where it is expected to be by default. A final `make install' should then complete the process. HTH. Regards, Keith. _______________________________________________ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff
