Re: [Groff] Cygwin html driver?

[Alejandro Lopez-Valencia]

At 02:22 p.m. 10/05/2003, Robert D. Goulding wrote:

> On rebuilding groff, it attempted to make the html documentation, but all
> the image files were of 0 size.
>
> Does anyone have any tips for how to get a fully-functioning html driver
> under cygwin?  Do you use the Windows ghostscript (as I attempted to do
> here) or cygwin's ghostscript?  (I have the cygwin netpbm utilities
> installed).

The bug is in the way the gs call is implemented in pre-html.cpp. This 
broke a couple of months ago, around the time of the release of the latest 
POSIX API layer runtime (1.13.22). As I don't understand the code well and 
not having much interest in the html driver myself, reporting the bug has 
fallen in the back burner...

Yet, it seems that gs is never called, it might be an optimization bug in 
Cygwin's gcc, a bug in Cygwin's emulation layer of pipes, or a fix in 
Cygwin's emulation layer that broke an unrealistic assumption on the 
working of pipes.

*sigh*