Hi Damian, At 2023-07-09T13:56:13+1000, Damian McGuckin wrote: > So, when I build groff 1.23.0, I should make sure that PAGE is set to > A4.
That should certainly work, but it shouldn't be _necessary_ if you do the build in an environment where an /etc/resolv.conf file reveals the Internet domain name you're using. Our configuration script attempts to infer the correct default paper format on the assumption that ISO A4 is the right choice _almost_ everywhere in the world. https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/tree/m4/groff.m4?h=1.23.0#n1011 > The big question is whether I really need to pass '-P-pa4' to groff so > that it can hand it off to the postprocessor., say grops/gropdf. Or > can the postprocessor get the information it needs from its input? The device descriptions for troff-mode (i.e., typesetting) devices are generated at build time using the configured `PAGE` default. $ find -name DESC.in ./src/devices/xditview/DESC.in ./font/devdvi/DESC.in ./font/devlbp/DESC.in ./font/devps/DESC.in ./font/devlj4/DESC.in ./font/devpdf/DESC.in For example... https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/tree/font/devps/devps.am?h=1.23.0#n142 So, the answer to your big question _should_ be, "no", and if it isn't, either your /etc/resolv.conf has something funny in it, or our autodetection logic could use some more work. Let us know! Regards, Branden
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