Re: [Groff] CVS Build Problem

2005-04-25 Thread Keith MARSHALL
Larry Jones wrote: > Keith Marshall writes [quoting me]: >> >>> There is a DESC file in /pubic/GNU/groff/font/devps, so I'm not sure why >>> it's not being found. >> >> Presumably you have checked to ensure that it has sensible access permissions >> assigned? Inspected it, to ensure its conte

[Groff] CVS Broken for Win32

2005-04-25 Thread Keith MARSHALL
Werner, The relocation patch, recently provided by Kees Zeelenberg, seems to break the current CVS for Win32 :-( The problem appears to be due to the use of `realpath()' in `relocate.cpp'; the native Win32 equivalent for this function is `_fullpath()', and the semantics are different. It could

[Groff] Re: CVS Broken for Win32

2005-04-25 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> The problem appears to be due to the use of `realpath()' in > `relocate.cpp'; the native Win32 equivalent for this function is > `_fullpath()', and the semantics are different. It could probably > be fixed with an appropriate `#define' in `nonposix.h', or, if this > module is specific to Win32

Re: [Groff] CVS Build Problem

2005-04-25 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> > Sorry, but I can't see any obvious clues in the make trace you posted. > > Neither can I, that's why I'm asking for help. :-) Perhaps you can try to use `strace' or a similar program. Then you can check where the files are searched. Werner __

Re: [Groff] CVS Build Problem

2005-04-25 Thread Larry Jones
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): GROFF_COMMAND_PREFIX=''; export GROFF_COMMAND_PREFIX; GR

Re: [Groff] CVS Build Problem

2005-04-25 Thread Keith Marshall
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 strac

Re: [Groff] CVS Build Problem

2005-04-25 Thread Larry Jones
Keith Marshall writes: > > 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. My guess (and it is just a guess) is that it happens everywhere but everyone who's been building it already has the font files installed so it hasn't

[Groff] groff and layout stability

2005-04-25 Thread Werner LEMBERG
On comp.tex.latex there was some discussion w.r.t. document layout stability and hyphenation patterns: Subject: Consistency of US hyphenation patterns across distributions References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Up to today, noone has ever mentioned a similar problem here, and I must admit that I've