Re: [Groff] CVS Build Problem

2005-05-05 Thread Keith Marshall
On Thursday 05 May 2005 10:24 am, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > And thanks again, for this.  Unless there are any objections from > > others, I'll investigate a solution based on option 4. > > I agree.  What the autoconf people use we can use also. But the truly autoconf compatible option would be my

Re: [Groff] CVS Build Problem

2005-05-05 Thread Keith Marshall
On Thursday 05 May 2005 7:40 pm, Zvezdan Petkovic wrote: > BTW, I don't think Cygwin should be a measure of Unix compatibility. Possibly not; but, like it or not, Microsoft Windows has the largest user base of any OS on the planet. For those of us who are forced, out of corporate necessity rath

Re: [Groff] CVS Build Problem

2005-05-05 Thread Zvezdan Petkovic
On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 10:42:13AM +0100, Keith MARSHALL wrote: > Larry Jones wrote, quoting Zvezdan Petkovic: > >> So the solution is to use command -v. > > > > Hardly -- "type" is probably more portable than "command -v" is. > > Particularly since "command -v" is optional in the latest version o

Re: [Groff] CVS Build Problem

2005-05-05 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> And thanks again, for this. Unless there are any objections from > others, I'll investigate a solution based on option 4. I agree. What the autoconf people use we can use also. Werner ___ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org

Re: [Groff] CVS Build Problem

2005-05-05 Thread Keith MARSHALL
Larry Jones wrote, quoting Zvezdan Petkovic: >> So the solution is to use command -v. > > Hardly -- "type" is probably more portable than "command -v" is. > Particularly since "command -v" is optional in the latest version of > POSIX (it's part of the User Portability Utilities option). I agree w

Re: [Groff] CVS Build Problem

2005-05-05 Thread Keith MARSHALL
Werner Lemberg wrote, quoting Larry Jones: >> I have one last problem -- contrib/pdfmark/pdfroff.sh makes >> extensive use of the "type" command, which is *NOT* a standard shell >> command. I was able to work around it by changing the first line >> from #!/bin/sh to #!/bin/bash, but it should prob

Re: [Groff] Re: CVS Broken for Win32

2005-05-05 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> However, my version *did* have one important difference -- according > to MSDN, _MAX_PATH is defined in stdlib.h, which isn't #included by > maxpathname.cpp, so you need to add that. Done. > If path_name_max() is to be used, in place of MAX_PATH in the > _fullpath() call, should it not also be

Re: [Groff] new groff prerelease

2005-05-05 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Using the tarball I mentioned in the other email, I've installed > Debian stable's DejaGnu and after `./configure && make' get > > $ make -s check > WARNING: Couldn't find tool init file > Test Run By ralph on Sun May 1 19:27:48 2005 > Native configuration is i586-pc-linux-gnu