回复: [Groff] building process stuck wh en building groff-current using MinGW

[Yu-ning Feng]

2007/9/10, Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden>:
>
> > I removed the groff-current source directory, extracted the package,
> > and maked again. I discovered something interesting. At first make,
> > make stopped much earlier.
>
> Indeed.  It stops with a very mysterious error not related to groff at
> all.  Is it possible that your netpbm package is broken, containing a
> bad `pnmtopng' executable?  Can you call this program successfully at
> all?

In msys, if I run it with some option, say --version, it gives me
correct result, but error if no option. If I run it in cmd.exe, with
no option, it starts a new line and waits for input.

>
> > "make clean". Maked again, things were different - it went on,
>
> Because the call with pnmtopng produced an (invalid) gnu.png output
> file which is not be removed by a `make clean' but by `make distclean'
> only -- gnu.png is normally part of the tarball, not to be created by
> a normal build.
>

I see. There is indeed a gnu.png whose size is zero.

> > tbl went wrong at "mixed_pickles" just as described before. Note
> > that pdfmark was ok this time.
>
> You can test that manually: Simply say
>
>   tbl < mixed_pickles.roff > mixed_pickles.tbl
>
> and check whether this call runs successful.  Otherwise, please use
> gdb to produce a backtrace.
>

The call fails, triggering that pop-up window. I only have some
experience with kd, so please guide me how to do it using gdb, thanks.

>
>     Werner
>


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Yu-ning Feng