Follow-up Comment #5, bug #62551 (project groff): [comment #3 comment #3:] > It should these days! Or, rather, it will if you have the > requisite tools installed.
I think I fell into the cracks of the timeline. I last built on April 23, just before commit c21f1a0e <http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/commit/?id=c21f1a0e>. I can't tell from the commit log whether this is the commit that pulled the plug on "make doc" -- it updated NEWS to that effect, but it's characterized at the top as a refactor, which to me implies no functionality change. This commit was a follow-on to Ingo's commit 3805d2a0 <http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/commit/?id=3805d2a0>, which _was_ in the tree I built, so _maybe_ I was supposed to get these files with an unadorned "make"? Anyway, I won't consider this a bug until I've built with all the latest changes and see what happens then. > What happens when you cd into your build directory (a no-op > if you build in the source tree) and say > > > make groff.dvi > make groff.pdf > > > ? If I do that literally, I get "No rule to make target 'groff.dvi'. Stop." But if I do what I deduce you meant, "make doc/groff.pdf", I get... a couple thousand lines of errors and a build failure. \-: None of this was output when I built the rest of groff, so (at least as of a month and a half ago) a simple "make" did not attempt to run this step. The errors appear to be related to outdated TeX tools, so also are not something I think groff need be concerned with. A huge number of the lines are repetitions of: kpathsea: Running mktextfm lcircle10 /usr/share/texmf-dist/web2c/mktexnam: Could not map source abbreviation for lcircle10. /usr/share/texmf-dist/web2c/mktexnam: Need to update ? mktextfm: Running mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; ; nonstopmode; input lcircle10 This is METAFONT, Version 2.7182818 (TeX Live 2020 Gentoo Linux) (preloaded base=mf) kpathsea: Running mktexmf lcircle10 ! I can't find file `lcircle10'. <*> ...our; mag:=1; ; nonstopmode; input lcircle10 Please type another input file name ! Emergency stop. <*> ...our; mag:=1; ; nonstopmode; input lcircle10 Transcript written on mfput.log. grep: lcircle10.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; ; nonstopmode; input lcircle10' failed to make lcircle10.tfm. kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?62551> _______________________________________________ Message sent via Savannah https://savannah.gnu.org/