Re: groff 1.19.1 complains when formatting its own man pages

[Paul Eggert]

Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> writes:

> I rather suspect that /usr/share/lib/tmac/an is input without
> activated compatibility mode.  Please tell me (looking again at the
> truss output) which input files in which order are processed.

Here's a list.  I've omitted the .../devps/... files, as I don't think
they're relevant.

/opt/reb/share/groff/1.19.1/tmac/troffrc
/opt/reb/share/groff/1.19.1/tmac/composite.tmac
/opt/reb/share/groff/1.19.1/tmac/ps.tmac
/opt/reb/share/groff/1.19.1/tmac/pspic.tmac
/opt/reb/share/groff/1.19.1/tmac/latin1.tmac
/opt/reb/share/groff/1.19.1/tmac/europs.tmac
/opt/reb/share/groff/1.19.1/tmac/hyphen.us
/opt/reb/share/groff/1.19.1/tmac/hyphenex.us
/opt/reb/share/groff/1.19.1/tmac/papersize.tmac
/opt/reb/lib/groff/site-tmac/an.tmac
/opt/reb/share/groff/1.19.1/tmac/andoc.tmac
/usr/share/lib/tmac/an
/opt/reb/share/groff/1.19.1/tmac/troffrc-end
/opt/reb/share/man/man1/groff.1
/opt/reb/share/groff/1.19.1/tmac/www.tmac


> The wrapper file for Sun's `an' macro file, `an.tmac', should
> consist of these three lines:
>
>   .do mso andoc.tmac
>   .cp 1
>   .so /usr/share/lib/tmac/an

Yes, it does.

> Another possibility for debugging is the following which probably
> gives better diagnostic messages:
>
>   groff -ww -mtrace -man ...

Here's stderr (gzipped) from running that:

2.gz
Description: gzipped stderr for groff test output