Re: [Groff] 1.18

[Tadziu Hoffmann]

> Pleased to see the new version, but having trouble compiling it.
> Platform - SCO Openserver 5.0.5, Using gcc 2.95.2
> 
> GROFF_BIN_PATH=`echo /tmp/groff-1.18/src/roff/groff 
> /tmp/groff-1.18/src/roff/troff /tmp/groff-1.18/src/devices/grops | sed -e 's| 
> \+|:|g'`; export GROFF_BIN_PATH; /tmp/groff-1.18/src/roff/groff/groff 
> -F/tmp/groff-1.18/font -M/tmp/groff-1.18/tmac -M/tmp/groff-1.18/contrib/mom 
> -Tps -mom examples/macros.mom >examples/macros.ps
> [snip -- various complaints about undefined stuff]
> You need GNU troff version 1.18 or higher to run this version of mom!
> 
> Where am I going wrong? Grateful for any help.


I'm getting something similar on a solaris machine.
Two things are happening here:

  * sed doesn't understand " \+" (neither " +"; it doesn't
    understand + at all).  Use "  *" (two spaces!).

  * groff is calling geqn, gpic, gtbl, gtroff, ..., thus
    referring to the installed previous version, instead of
    the newly built eqn, pic, tbl, troff, ...
    To resolve this, explicitly set
    GROFF_COMMAND_PREFIX='' export GROFF_COMMAND_PREFIX