On 12/15/2009 07:47 AM, Fernando Oliveira wrote:
> --- Em ter, 15/12/09, stosss<sto...@gmail.com> escreveu:
>
>
> As everybody here knows, I am not very experienced LFS/BLFS user, but I
> remind having this same problem and the cause was that Groff package had not
> been properly installed.
>
> The reason: in Groff installation page, the first command is
>
> PAGE=<paper_size> ./configure --prefix=/usr
>
> I had not realized, during copy/paste, that the<paper_size> had to be
> defined (for me, A4, but for English speaking users, probably it is Letter.
> After properly recompiling an reistalling Groff, the compilation of Man-DB
> succeeded.
>
> I believe that Groff page could be improved with some remark to call
> attention for this.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> []s,
> Fernando Oliveira
> Natal, RN, BRAZIL
>
The Groff page already specifies that you need to substitute the
appropriate page size in the command. Anyone building LFS just needs to
keep in mind that you do also need to read the text, not just
copy-and-paste the commands.
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