Re: [Groff] Building GROFF

[John Poltorak]

On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 09:29:13AM +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> 
> > Does that mean I can expect a completely clean build from CVS. That
> > would be excellent!
> 
> I've even slightly improved a build on OS/2 with EMX by providing
> strcasecmp() and strncasecmp() functions in libgroff and adding some
> other fixes based on Jun's patches.  Please test.  Since the anonymous
> CVS is down currently -- to be back next week -- please get the
> tarball (or diff) from the latest snapshot, which is updated twice a
> day.

I'll certainly try the latest snapshot. Where do I get it from?
 
> > > Is this really the only problem you have during a build of groff
> > > with EMX on OS/2?  This would be a very pleasant surprise.
> > 
> > I'm going to attach a build log so you can see for yourself how it
> > went.  You will have a clearer idea about how well it went - but it
> > looks pretty good to me.
> 
> Indeed, this looks *very* promising!  Does groff.exe actually work,
> calling all its subprograms?  What about environment variables?

I'm not at all familiar with groff and haven't tested it apart from 
running 'groff --version' which does work.

Does the tarball include a test suite of some sort which I could try?
 
>     Werner

-- 
John