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
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
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
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 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 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 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 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 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.
===
GNU roff 1.23.0.rc3: ./test-suite.log
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 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
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