Re: No rule to make target `tmac/mdoc/doc-common', needed by `all-am'. Stop.

2021-10-28 Thread Axel Kielhorn
> Am 28.10.2021 um 20:46 schrieb John Gardner : > > Hi Axel, > > Before running ./bootstrap from the root directory, make sure all build > artefacts are wiped: > > git pull && git checkout -- . && git clean -xfd > > I recall seeing this exact error a while ago when attempting to recompile

Re: No rule to make target `tmac/mdoc/doc-common', needed by `all-am'. Stop.

2021-10-28 Thread John Gardner
Hi Axel, Before running ./bootstrap from the root directory, make sure *all *build artefacts are wiped: git pull && git checkout -- . && git clean -xfd I recall seeing this exact error a while ago when attempting to recompile Groff. It might be related. On Fri, 29 Oct 2021 at 05:18, Axel Kielh

Re: Portability to Mac OS X (was: Sed failure in contrib/sboxes on MacOS)

2021-10-28 Thread Larry McVoy
On Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 05:19:00AM +1100, John Gardner wrote: > I was thinking of ms(7) more than manual pages, actually. Think single-page > HTML output. -ms lends itself to parsing nicely. I wrote something called webroff (in perl) that took ms input and spit out a website. In the early days o

Re: Portability to Mac OS X (was: Sed failure in contrib/sboxes on MacOS)

2021-10-28 Thread John Gardner
> > https://mandoc.bsd.lv/texi2mdoc/ I was thinking of ms(7) more than manual pages, actually. Think single-page HTML output. mdoc(7) is too restrictive and specialised to lend itself well to the various applications Texinfo manuals are used for. (Anyway, I was just spitballing. I want an excus

No rule to make target `tmac/mdoc/doc-common', needed by `all-am'. Stop.

2021-10-28 Thread Axel Kielhorn
Today I did a make clean ./configure --with-uchardet=no make and got make[1]: *** No rule to make target `tmac/mdoc/doc-common', needed by `all-am'. Stop. Yes, I did an autoconf and autoupdate since autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.71f suggested that. Today I’m on MacOS 10.13 with a current

Re: Portability to Mac OS X

2021-10-28 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi John, John Gardner wrote on Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 04:27:50AM +1100: > Even better: a preprocessor to convert Texinfo markup to Roff source > (possibly targeting a macro package). I've said it before, and I'll said it > again: Groff needs TeX about as badly as it needs an Instagram page. > > te

Re: Portability to Mac OS X (was: Sed failure in contrib/sboxes on MacOS)

2021-10-28 Thread John Gardner
In lieu of escaped newlines and awkward sed(1) formatting, you can use the following line to insert an empty line: /^Before$/ { N; s/\n/&&/; } Note that BSD sed(1) is picky about braces and semicolons. I have groff building successfully on Mac OS X now. > I recently upgraded to macOS 12.0.1 (M