Re: [Groff] groff for Mac OSX

[Robert Goulding]

On Jun 1, 2005, at 5:14 PM, Miklos Somogyi wrote:

> Is there a Mac OSX (Panther-Tiger) compiled version of groff available?
> Does anyone have a commented version of the "me" macros?
>
> Thank you very much,
>
> Miklos

There doesn't seem to be a ready-compiled version of the latest groff 
around.  OS X.3 comes, of course, with groff 1.18.1 pre-installed.  But 
it is easy to compile the CVS using the OS X development tools.  Get 
the CVS as detailed on the webpage.  Then issue the commands in 
Terminal.app:

setenv CXX g++2
setenv PAGE letter [that is, if you need letter paper as default 
instead of A4]
./configure --mandir=/usr/local/share/man
make

That should do it!  But it *would* be good if there were a precompiled 
binary around - I'm on vacation with a laptop without development tools 
installed, and would very much like to be able to download a ready-made 
binary of the latest CVS.  When I get back home, I may well do it 
myself and put it on a webpage somewhere.

As for the -me macros - take a look at the version in the CVS (or the 
release tarball), *before* it gets installed.  It is quite extensively 
commented - the comments are stripped out in the installation process.

Robert.