Re: trouble with groff -M

[Werner LEMBERG]

> When compiling the current groff I get the following error - but
> only when groffer was uninstalled before the compilation.

What exactly do you mean with `uninstalled before the compilation'?

> make[2]: Entering directory `/src/groff/contrib/mom'
> test -d examples || /src/groff/mkinstalldirs examples
> test -f penguin.ps || cp /src/groff/contrib/mom/examples/penguin.ps .
> GROFF_BIN_PATH=`echo /src/groff/roff/groff /src/groff/roff/troff \
> /src/groff/devices/grops | sed -e 's| \+|:|g'`; export GROFF_BIN_PATH; \
> /src/groff/src/roff/groff/groff -F/src/groff/font \
> -M/src/groff/contrib/mom -Tps -mom examples/macros.mom \
> >examples/macros.ps
> troff: fatal error: can't find macro file om
> make[2]: *** [examples/macros.ps] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/src/groff/contrib/mom'
> make[1]: *** [contrib/mom] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/src/groff'
> make: *** [all] Error 2

Indeed, this problem has already been reported; unfortunately, it
doesn't happen on my Linux box -- maybe you can give a detailed
recipe to reproduce the bug.  Have you looked into the config.log
file?  Something suspicious there?

> PS: I cannot hunt the bugs myself because I'm involved in
> groffer-0.8, which will have an option parser of its own (instead of
> getopt*) and new modes --ps, --dvi, --www with automatic display in
> suitable viewer programs.  I'd like to get this done before the
> release; so I'm short in time.

Please try to debug!  It looks like a serious bug which should be
fixed before the release.


    Werner