回复: 回复: [Groff] building process stuck when building groff-current using MinGW

[Yu-ning Feng]

2007/9/10, Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden>:
> > > Indeed.  It stops with a very mysterious error not related to
> > > groff at all.  Is it possible that your netpbm package is broken,
> > > containing a bad `pnmtopng' executable?  Can you call this program
> > > successfully at all?
> >
> > In msys, if I run it with some option, say --version, it gives me
> > correct result, but error if no option. If I run it in cmd.exe, with
> > no option, it starts a new line and waits for input.
>
> This is suspicious.  Try to convert a PNM file manually into the PNG
> format.  If that fails, please try to find a working pnmtopng
> executable and report which netpbm (or pnmtopng) version is failing
> and which one is working.
>

I have tried netpbm 10.18.4 (with libpng 1.2.7). It works. The
problematic one is netpbm 10.27 (with libpng 1.2.8). All from
GnuWin32.

> > > You can test that manually: Simply say
> > >
> > >   tbl < mixed_pickles.roff > mixed_pickles.tbl
> > >
> > > and check whether this call runs successful.  Otherwise, please use
> > > gdb to produce a backtrace.
> >
> > The call fails, triggering that pop-up window. I only have some
> > experience with kd, so please guide me how to do it using gdb,
> > thanks.
>
> Say
>
>   gdb --args tbl mixed_pickles.roff
>
> then press `r' (and ignore tbl's output to stdout).  If tbl crashes,
> press `bt full' and cut'n'paste the backtrace.
>

I will do this later.

>
>     Werner
>


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Yu-ning Feng