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Re: [Groff] installation problem in groff-1.12


From: Werner LEMBERG
Subject: Re: [Groff] installation problem in groff-1.12
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 08:29:16 GMT

> Just installed groff-1.2 on Solaris 2.6, with a --prefix
> option. Formatting even the simplest manual page using "groff
> -Tascii -man clisp.1" produced an error (and very ugly output on
> stdout), originating from the .so statement in
> $(prefix)/share/groff/tmac/tmac.an:
> 

> /nfs/.../share/groff/tmac/tmac.an:2: unsafe to execute request
>   `/usr/share/lib/tmac/an'
> 
> Thus may be because I installed groff as a normal user, whereas the
> /usr/share/lib/tmac/* files are owned by user=bin, group=bin.
> "groff -help" mentions an option -U, but when I try to use it, I get
> "groff: illegal option -- U".

Two serious bugs crawled into 1.12 (which you've hit both :-).  In a
few minutes I'll make a 1.12.1 release which fixes these.


    Werner


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