Re: [Groff] Problems compiling groff 1.18

[Colin Watson]

On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 03:03:40PM +0200, Johan Bengtsson wrote:
> I'm trying to compile groff 1.18 on Solaris 8 with gcc 2.95.2.
> Here's the error messages I get:
[...]
> /local/GROFF/groff-1.18/tmac/ps.tmac:38: warning: `fchar' not defined
> (probable missing space after `fc')

groff is inadvertently using an older version of troff rather than the
one that's just been built. There was a thread about this here:

  http://ffii.org/archive/mails/groff/2002/Jul/0181.html

... and these patches were applied to CVS:

Index: contrib/mom/ChangeLog
===================================================================
RCS file: /var/cvs/groff/contrib/mom/ChangeLog,v
retrieving revision 1.7
retrieving revision 1.8
diff -p -u -u -r1.7 -r1.8
--- contrib/mom/ChangeLog       17 Jul 2002 04:50:28 -0000      1.7
+++ contrib/mom/ChangeLog       24 Jul 2002 15:19:54 -0000      1.8
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+*Wed Jul 24 2002
+
+o Makefile.sub (groff_bin_path): Don't use ' \+' but '  *' for sed.
+  (GROFF): Set GROFF_COMMAND_PREFIX to empty value.
+
 *Fri Jul 12 2002
 
 o More fixes to underlining.
Index: contrib/mom/Makefile.sub
===================================================================
RCS file: /var/cvs/groff/contrib/mom/Makefile.sub,v
retrieving revision 1.8
retrieving revision 1.9
diff -p -u -u -r1.8 -r1.9
--- contrib/mom/Makefile.sub    7 Jun 2002 21:19:47 -0000       1.8
+++ contrib/mom/Makefile.sub    24 Jul 2002 15:19:54 -0000      1.9
@@ -21,12 +21,14 @@ groff_bin_dirs=\
   $(top_builddir)/src/roff/groff \
   $(top_builddir)/src/roff/troff \
   $(top_builddir)/src/devices/grops
-groff_bin_path=`echo $(groff_bin_dirs) | sed -e 's| \+|:|g'`
+groff_bin_path=`echo $(groff_bin_dirs) | sed -e 's|  *|:|g'`
 
 FFLAG=-F$(top_builddir)/font
 TFLAG=-M$(top_builddir)/tmac -M$(srcdir)
 
-GROFF=GROFF_BIN_PATH=$(groff_bin_path); \
+GROFF=GROFF_COMMAND_PREFIX=''; \
+      export GROFF_COMMAND_PREFIX; \
+      GROFF_BIN_PATH=$(groff_bin_path); \
       export GROFF_BIN_PATH; \
       $(top_builddir)/src/roff/groff/groff $(FFLAG) $(TFLAG)
 
Index: ChangeLog
===================================================================
RCS file: /var/cvs/groff/ChangeLog,v
retrieving revision 1.439
retrieving revision 1.440
diff -p -u -u -r1.439 -r1.440
--- ChangeLog   24 Jul 2002 14:59:10 -0000      1.439
+++ ChangeLog   24 Jul 2002 15:21:20 -0000      1.440
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2002-07-24  Werner LEMBERG  <address@hidden>
+
+       * doc/Makefile.in, doc/Makefile.sub (groff_bin_path): Don't use
+       ' \+' but '  *' for sed.
+       (GROFF): Set GROFF_COMMAND_PREFIX to empty value.
+
 2002-07-23  Werner LEMBERG  <address@hidden>
 
        * doc/groff.texinfo: Document `papersize' keyword.
Index: doc/Makefile.in
===================================================================
RCS file: /var/cvs/groff/doc/Makefile.in,v
retrieving revision 1.3
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -p -u -u -r1.3 -r1.4
--- doc/Makefile.in     19 Jun 2002 13:17:53 -0000      1.3
+++ doc/Makefile.in     24 Jul 2002 15:21:20 -0000      1.4
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ groff_bin_dirs=\
   $(top_builddir)/src/devices/grolj4 \
   $(top_builddir)/src/devices/grolbp \
   $(top_builddir)/src/devices/grohtml
-groff_bin_path=`echo $(groff_bin_dirs) | sed -e 's| \+|:|g'`
+groff_bin_path=`echo $(groff_bin_dirs) | sed -e 's|  *|:|g'`
 
 version=`cat $(top_srcdir)/VERSION`
 # No additional number if revision is zero.
@@ -68,7 +68,9 @@ FFLAG=-F$(top_builddir)/font -F$(top_src
 TFLAG=-M$(top_builddir)/tmac -M$(top_srcdir)/tmac
 
 TROFF=$(top_builddir)/src/roff/troff/troff $(TFLAG) $(FFLAG) -ww
-GROFF=GROFF_BIN_PATH=$(groff_bin_path); \
+GROFF=GROFF_COMMAND_PREFIX=''; \
+      export GROFF_COMMAND_PREFIX; \
+      GROFF_BIN_PATH=$(groff_bin_path); \
       export GROFF_BIN_PATH; \
       sed -e "s;@VERSION@;$(version)$(revision);" $< \
       | $(top_builddir)/src/roff/groff/groff $(TFLAG) $(FFLAG) -Upet -ww
Index: doc/Makefile.sub
===================================================================
RCS file: /var/cvs/groff/doc/Makefile.sub,v
retrieving revision 1.4
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -p -u -u -r1.4 -r1.5
--- doc/Makefile.sub    15 Jun 2002 09:32:04 -0000      1.4
+++ doc/Makefile.sub    24 Jul 2002 15:21:20 -0000      1.5
@@ -33,12 +33,14 @@ groff_bin_dirs=\
   $(top_builddir)/src/preproc/html \
   $(top_builddir)/src/devices/grops \
   $(top_builddir)/src/devices/grohtml
-groff_bin_path=`echo $(groff_bin_dirs) | sed -e 's| \+|:|g'`
+groff_bin_path=`echo $(groff_bin_dirs) | sed -e 's|  *|:|g'`
 
 FFLAG=-F$(top_builddir)/font -F$(top_srcdir)/font
 TFLAG=-M$(top_builddir)/tmac -M$(top_srcdir)/tmac
 
 GROFF=\
+  GROFF_COMMAND_PREFIX=''; \
+  export GROFF_COMMAND_PREFIX; \
   GROFF_BIN_PATH=$(groff_bin_path); \
   export GROFF_BIN_PATH; \
   sed -e "s;@VERSION@;$(version)$(revision);" $< \

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                  address@hidden