[Groff] Re: DESC question

[Ersin Akinci]

Hey everyone,

Thanks for all your suggestions and help!  I did manage to find my
"problem", though.  Just for the record (for anyone else who might
have this problem), compiling statically will yield the "No DESC"
error.  You need to compile linked to shared libraries.  Alejandro
made the point that the DESC file is included, which makes sense,
since I'm not getting those errors anymore.

Yes, I am very new to groff, and I needed to compile it to fulfill a
dependency.  I didn't realize how complicated it all is!

Thanks again!

-Ersin


On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 23:56:43 -0500, Ersin Akinci <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I get the feeling this is going to be a RTFM question, but I haven't
> been able to find a straight answer anywhere...What exactly is the
> DESC file?  When I type in "groff" on my Debian testing box all it
> does is wait for input (it doesn't return any output).  But I recently
> compiled groff from scratch in another directory with a seperate
> native toolchain I've been building, and when I run groff with no
> options, this is the result:
> 
> thebeast:/usr/src/groff-1.19.1# groff
> groff: can't find `DESC' file
> groff:fatal error: invalid device `ps'
> 
> The groff on my Debian system is 1.18.1 and the groff I compiled is
> 1.19.1.  I compiled the new groff statically, could that be a problem?
>  Is this a bug, or do I need to set up a DESC file?
> 
> Thanks for your help!
> 
> -Ersin
>