Re: [Groff] Groff pipeline plumbing problem

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Rick,

> > This is the same pipeline that is reported by groff 1.17.  However,
> > it works fine with 1.17, but not with CVS 1.18.
> 
> ...
> 
> The problem seems to come when groff-CVS process 16700 (forked from
> pre-grohtml) does this:
> 
>       16700 execve("/usr/local/test/bin/groff",
> 
> groff-1.17 seems to exec /usr/bin/troff at that point, not the groff
> wrapper.

It may be related to src/preproc/html/pre-html.cc changing after groff
1.17 to use `groff -Z' instead of `troff' in order to pick up
GROFF_BIN_PATH.

Gaius, any ideas?


Ralph.