Re: missing -Tpdf

[Douglas McIlroy]

Cygwin did exclude gropdf and pdfgroff. "The accompanying man page"
that I meant was groff.1. Perhaps that man page should say that not
all groff distributions support pdf.

On Sat, Jul 29, 2023 at 1:35 PM G. Branden Robinson
<g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Doug,
>
> At 2023-07-29T13:00:13-0400, Douglas McIlroy wrote:
> > 1.22.4, which I got via Cygwin, lacks -Tpdf, although the accompanying
> > man page describes it.  Is it perhaps an installation option that
> > Cygwin didn't set?
>
> More or less.  gropdf has some prerequisites, and if they aren't met,
> gropdf will not be built.  However, it does seem a bit weird to ship the
> man page but not its corresponding executable.
>
> Possibly this was a packaging oversight, maybe arising from a choice not
> to support gropdf, but someone forgot to stop shipping the man page.
>
> However, looking at their "groff.cygport" file, it seems like they _do_
> support and ship gropdf.
>
> https://cygwin.com/cgit/cygwin-packages/groff/tree/groff.cygport?#n23
>
> Also note line 30.
>
> It's in their groff-perl package.  Do you have that installed?
>
> I'm sorry to see that practically every Perl script we ship as an
> executable is mentioned in their package description, _except_ for
> gropdf.  Talk about burying the lede...
>
> Let us know!
>
> Regards,
> Branden