[Groff] Problems compiling groff 1.18

[Johan Bengtsson]

Hi,

I'm trying to compile groff 1.18 on Solaris 8 with gcc 2.95.2.
Here's the error messages I get:

Making groffer.n from groffer.man
gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/local/GROFF/groff-1.18/contrib/groffer'
gmake[2]: Entering directory `/local/GROFF/groff-1.18/contrib/mom'
test -d examples || /local/GROFF/groff-1.18/mkinstalldirs examples
test -f penguin.ps || cp
/local/GROFF/groff-1.18/contrib/mom/examples/penguin.ps .
GROFF_BIN_PATH=`echo /local/GROFF/groff-1.18/src/roff/groff
/local/GROFF/groff-1.18/src/roff/troff
/local/GROFF/groff-1.18/src/devices/grops | sed -e 's| \+|:|g'`; export
GROFF_BIN_PATH; /local/GROFF/groff-1.18/src/roff/groff/groff
-F/local/GROFF/groff-1.18/font -F/local/GROFF/groff-1.18/font
-M/local/GROFF/groff-1.18/tmac -M/local/GROFF/groff-1.18/tmac
-M/local/GROFF/groff-1.18/contrib/mom -Tps -mom examples/letter.mom
>examples/letter.ps
/local/GROFF/groff-1.18/tmac/ps.tmac:38: warning: `fchar' not defined
(probable missing space after `fc')
/local/GROFF/groff-1.18/tmac/ps.tmac:39: warning: `fchar' not defined
(probable missing space after `fc')
/local/GROFF/groff-1.18/tmac/ps.tmac:40: warning: `fchar' not defined
(probable missing space after `fc')
/local/GROFF/groff-1.18/tmac/ps.tmac:41: warning: `fchar' not defined
(probable missing space after `fc')
/local/GROFF/groff-1.18/tmac/ps.tmac:42: warning: `fchar' not defined
(probable missing space after `fc')
/local/GROFF/groff-1.18/tmac/ps.tmac:43: warning: `fchar' not defined

[cut lots of similar stuff...]

/local/GROFF/groff-1.18/tmac/latin1.tmac:103: warning: `trin' not defined
(probable missing space after `tr')
/local/GROFF/groff-1.18/tmac/latin1.tmac:104: warning: `trin' not defined
(probable missing space after `tr')
You need GNU troff version 1.18 or higher to run this version of mom!
gmake[2]: *** [examples/letter.ps] Error 1
gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/local/GROFF/groff-1.18/contrib/mom'
gmake[1]: *** [contrib/mom] Error 2
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/local/GROFF/groff-1.18'
gmake: *** [all] Error 2
339.26u 29.54s 6:48.16 90.3%
idril:elijah 14:23 /local/GROFF/groff-1.18 >

Is there there anything I can do to make it work? The reason I'm compiling
this version is that I'm trying to make tkman work properly.  The tkman
homepage says that the "Bad text index.." messages I get in tkman are
related to a bug in groff, and that one should upgrade to a current
version that has a fix for this...

Thanks for all help!

Best regards,
Johan Bengtsson
-- 
http://www.dd.chalmers.se/~elijah/