On the following platforms, the build succeeded and all tests passed:
- Linux
Ubuntu 22.04
Debian 9.1
Debian 11.1
CentOS 8-stream
CentOS Stream 9
OpenSUSE Leap 15.2
Manjaro 17
- macOS 12.5
- OpenBSD 7.2 with cc
- Solaris 11.4 (with the appropriate $PATH)
- Cygwin 2.9.0
On Alpine Linux 3.14 the build works fine, but there is one test failure:
FAIL: contrib/gdiffmk/tests/runtests.sh
Find attached the log file. The cause is apparently that the 'diff' program
on this platform is not GNU diff, but diff from BusyBox. See:
$ diff --version
diff: unrecognized option:
On FreeBSD 13.1, the build succeeds, but there is 1 test failure:
FAIL: contrib/gdiffmk/tests/runtests.sh
Find attached the log. Apparently non-numeric arguments get passed to the
'expr' program.
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GNU roff 1.23.0.rc3: ./test-suite.log
On GNU/Hurd and NetBSD 9.0, the build succeeds, and there is 1 test failure:
FAIL: src/roff/groff/tests/initialization_is_quiet.sh
=
testing "-m cs"; COMPAT=""
FAIL src/roff/groff/tests/initialization_is_quiet.sh (exit status: 1)
Find attache
On Solaris 11.4, with the default PATH setting, the build succeeds
but there are 95 test failures. Log is attached.
The cause is that the 'grep' program in $PATH is old. Solaris 11.4
comes with two alternatives:
/usr/xpg4/bin/grep
/usr/gnu/bin/grep
So I set
PATH=/usr/xpg4/bin:$PATH
With th
On native Windows, I attempted a build with mingw and with MSVC 14.
* With mingw (in 64-bit mode), the build failed here:
../src/include/symbol.h: In member function ‘long unsigned int symbol::hash()
const’:
../src/include/symbol.h:61:25: error: cast from ‘const char*’ to ‘long unsigned
int’ lo
On Solaris 10, I tried two compilers:
* The Sun C, C++ compilers.
This resulted in a build failure:
CC -xarch=generic64 -O -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I./src/include
-I../src/include -I../lib -I./src/include -I./lib
-I/home/haible/prefix-x86_64/include -g -c -o src/devices/grodvi/dvi.o
../s
On AIX 7.2, for a 64-bit build, the environment variable AR needs to be set
to 'ar -X 64', see
https://gitlab.com/ghwiki/gnow-how/-/wikis/Platforms/Configuration .
This is what I have done, and nevertheless the groff build fails:
$ make
...
GEN src/utils/lookbib/lookbib.1
make all
On FreeBSD, NetBSD, and AIX, with the platform's 'make' program (which is
good enough for building many GNU packages, even as a VPATH build), I
get this build failure:
$ make
...
GEN font/devpdf/DESC
GEN font/devpdf/Foundry
make: don't know how to make ./shdeps.sed. Stop
The reason
Hi John,
At 2023-03-05T20:24:48+1100, John Gardner wrote:
> Documentation cowboys think they're being cool when they cram all this
> shit onto one logical synopsis line.
>
> Synopses for command-line programs (i.e., man pages allocated to
> sections 1 or 8) are only a small part of the problem. W
Hi Branden,
Documentation cowboys think they're being cool when they cram all this shit
> onto one logical synopsis line.
>
Synopses for command-line programs (i.e., man pages allocated to sections 1
or 8) are only a small part of the problem. When documenting file formats,
configuration files, s
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