Re: Building gettext from latest CVS

[Bruno Haible]

Barry Warsaw writes:

> I'm trying to build the latest cvs snapshot of gettext (just now "cvs
> update"'d).

You are welcome to test it. But this CVS contains a README-alpha file saying

   This is a test release of GNU gettext.
   Please do not send reports about this release to any
   GNU mailing list or newsgroup.

   Please send comments and problems to <two email addresses>.

> groff -mandoc -Thtml `if test -f gettext.1; then echo .; else echo .; 
> fi`/gettext.1 > t-gettext.1.html
> groff: can't find `DESC' file
> groff:fatal error: invalid device `html'

The man/Makefile.am which is executed here has a comment: groff 1.17 or newer.

Eli Zaretskii writes:

> I think the html device support was added in Groff 1.16.

Yes, and it was completely rewritten in groff 1.17 and now generates
really pleasant HTML.

Bruno