Re: [Groff] groff 1.19.1 compile/installation failure

[Alejandro Lopez-Valencia]

At 04:41 p.m. 17/05/2004, Larry Kollar wrote:
> I suspect that making the makefiles work with non-GNU makes
> would be a chore since they're built with configure (aka
> GNU autoconf). But requiring bash, and requiring it to be
> in /bin, is probably something that could be fixed.

Not really. They are a home grown system that comes from the times when 
Automake and libtool didn't exist. I did try recently to port the Makefile 
system to automake/libtool (because automake alone is a disaster and 
libtool cleans up the act), but didn't go too far. I'll need to read the 
documentation again at least five times before it sinks in, and cut my 
teeth with a smaller project.

There are problems with the autoconf script, no doubt. Under zsh it gives a 
weird error message:

- % ./configure --prefix=/usr
func_success failed.

And then churns away happily. This with zsh 4.02 under cygwin. If I use 
bash 2.05b as my shell, surprise!, no problems at all. I concede, zsh is 
*weird* and somewhat broken, but I love the command completion...