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Re: [Groff] search order of tmac directories


From: Mike Bianchi
Subject: Re: [Groff] search order of tmac directories
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 09:41:39 -0400
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14)

On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 08:55:52AM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> the search order for tmac files (as documented in troff.man) is
> 
>   1. directories given with the -M command line option
>   2. directories given in the GROFF_TMAC_PATH environment variable
>   3. the current directory (only if in unsafe mode)
>   4. the home directory
>   5. a site-dependent directory, e.g. /usr/local/lib/groff/site-tmac
>   6. a local directory, e.g. /usr/local/share/groff/site-tmac
>   7. the standard directory, e.g. /usr/local/share/groff/1.19.3/tmac
> 
> I think there is a logical error, and 5 should be exchanged with 6 to
> have an order with the decreasing priority.
> 
> If noone objects, I'll reverse it accordingly.

I'm guessing that the logic is that 6 and 7 are both rooted in
 /usr/local/share  and 5 is not.  To me that seems logical.

Are there a definitions for
        site-dependent directory
        local directory
 ?

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