Re: [Groff] CVS Build Problem

[Larry Kollar]

Jim Reid wrote:

> > I very much doubt if anyone changed groff's build/install procedure 
> > with any
> > intent to make it in any way Linux specific;
>
> Fact: somebody *did* change the build/install stuff. It used to work 
> on  BSD/OS. It had done so since at least 1996. Now it doesn't. To 
> some extent, this specific discussion is now moot because BSD/OS is 
> dead. That said, the wider point about trying to keep groff from 
> falling into a Linux-only ghetto remains valid.

I compile groff regularly on MacOS X, which (underneath Aqua at least) 
is supposedly mostly a FreeBSD userland with a few GNU pieces here & 
there. I've even made a few minor fixes and enhancements, and Werner 
hasn't indicated any problems with my patches (except that I forget to 
use diff -u on occasion :-P). Zvezdan Petkovic says he has built it on 
OpenBSD.

I have to agree with Keith; in my experience groff is easier to compile 
than many other Free packages of similar size. From what Werner & Larry 
Jones were saying, it sounds like it might be a compiler bug in BSD/OS.
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