Re: [Groff] CVS Build Problem

2005-04-27 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> It turns out that the problem is that search_path::search_path is > called from a static constructor, but static constructors are called > *before* the global environment pointer is set, so getenv() doesn't > work in a static constructor. Not being a C++ expert, I have no > idea whether this is

Re: [Groff] CVS Build Problem

2005-04-27 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> It was BSD/OS 4.2 too. I never found the time to get to the bottom > of the problem and abandoned updating groff on that box. Somebody > changed groff's build/install stuff to make it more Linux-specific, > breaking backwards compatibility with the installed base. ??? This is nonsense. Norm

Re: [Groff] CVS Build Problem

2005-04-27 Thread Jim Reid
On Apr 27, 2005, at 02:44, Keith Marshall wrote: I'm almost sorry I bothered to mention Jim Reid at all; I had forgotten what an irascible character he is, and I felt rather disinclined to even grace this drivel with a response. Personal attacks and insults, especially unfounded ones, have no pla

[Groff] pic resize problem

2005-04-27 Thread james walker
When i process a pic file into a postscript file, for some reason it gets shrunk automatically, how do i stop this? i type this in the command line: pic floorB.pic | psroff -ms -t > floorB.ps and get this output: pic: 60 X 42 picture shrunk to 7 X 4.9 Wasn't sure if i could attach the pic file so

Re: [Groff] CVS Build Problem

2005-04-27 Thread Zvezdan Petkovic
On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 09:16:33AM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > > It was BSD/OS 4.2 too. I never found the time to get to the bottom > > of the problem and abandoned updating groff on that box. Somebody > > changed groff's build/install stuff to make it more Linux-specific, > > breaking back

Re: [Groff] CVS Build Problem

2005-04-27 Thread Heinz-Jürgen Oertel
Am Mittwoch, 27. April 2005 18:06 schrieb Zvezdan Petkovic: > > FWIW, the only reason I do not use 1.19 branch is that it doesn't work > with gpresent. The request .PAUSE inside a pic creates a vertical move, > and the figure ends up quite different from what it should be. :-) > Has anything been

Re: [Groff] pic resize problem

2005-04-27 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> When i process a pic file into a postscript file, for some reason it > gets shrunk automatically, how do i stop this? i type this in the > command line: > > pic floorB.pic | psroff -ms -t > floorB.ps > > and get this output: > > pic: 60 X 42 picture shrunk to 7 X 4.9 Uh, oh, whatever you use, i

[Groff] Minor Problem Building from Distribution Tarball

2005-04-27 Thread Keith Marshall
Werner, To facilitate transferring from my CVS sandbox (on my Linux machine) to my Win32 box, for testing the relocation patch, I did a `make dist'. I then used the resultant tarball to source this unofficial distribution on to the Win32 host. (I'm not quite done with the relocation patch, BTW

Re: [Groff] CVS Build Problem

2005-04-27 Thread Larry Kollar
Jim Reid wrote: I very much doubt if anyone changed groff's build/install procedure with any intent to make it in any way Linux specific; Fact: somebody *did* change the build/install stuff. It used to work on BSD/OS. It had done so since at least 1996. Now it doesn't. To some extent, this spec

[Groff] Re: Minor Problem Building from Distribution Tarball

2005-04-27 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> [...] I configured in a separate build directory, and uncovered a > small problem with the `doc' directory. Specifically, the `gnu.eps' > file needs to be in the build directory when `webpage.html' is > formatted, but the make doesn't copy it from the source. > > Attached patch fixes this, [...