Alex Goncharov wrote: > `groff' is still not working for me, and with it `man' doesn't: > > ---------------------------------------- > $ uname -srv > FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE #34: Tue Aug 26 18:14:46 EDT > 2008... > > $ man man > /usr/bin/groff: can't find `DESC' file > /usr/bin/groff:fatal error: invalid device `ascii' > ---------------------------------------- >
[snip] > > So, I looked at how things are being built and think that the > following is supposed to happen with respect to `groff' -- a GNU > program: > > 1. The build is driven by `gnu/usr.bin/groff/Makefile' (all paths in > the following are relative to `/usr/src'. > > 2. During the build, the original "contrib" code is used, to be found > in `contrib/groff'. > > That code is configured by the pristine `contrib/groff/configure' > and results in setting the "prefix" to the GNU-usual `/usr/local' > and generating the FreeBSD-unaware `defs.h' and `config.h'. contrib/groff/configure shouldn't be called at all, looks like there's something wrong with your local build environment. Check timestamps on src/contrib/groff and src/gnu/usr.bin/groff contents (try removing them and checkout again). Posting relevant entries from /etc/{make,src}.conf and your `env` output could be helpful too. > 3. Then some magic "is supposed to happen / was happening two weeks > ago for me", when the newly generated `defs.h' and `config.h' are > replaced with the FreeBSD hard versions that had been delivered > from CVS -- and the paths get corrected to eliminate the `local' > component from them and do other path adjustments to bring it all > to the FreeBSD standards: > > -------------------- > $ diff contrib/groff/src/include/defs.h gnu/usr.bin/groff/src/include/defs.h > | head -n 12 yuri:/usr/src> diff -u contrib/groff/src/include/defs.h gnu/usr.bin/groff/src/include/defs.h diff: contrib/groff/src/include/defs.h: No such file or directory [snip] > 4. Then the build happens with whatever `defs.h' and `config.h' will > be found at that time under `contrib/groff/src/include'. > > If the step 3 worked before but is not working now, it explains my > current end results. > > But how about others: everything works for you? What could have > triggered the change in the process for me a week or so ago? `man man` works for me on 7.0-RELEASE with groff built from RELENG_7 src. > Anybody is able and willing to lead me out of my lasting misery? > > Thanks, > > -- Alex -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- HTH, Yuri _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"