Re: [Groff] gs and grops problems

[Miklos Somogyi]

Hi Werner,

This was enough for me to check TMPDIR, and it was not copied over by  
the
Migration Assistant. The rest was simple enough, and groff now works.
Even eqn seems to be ok.

Thanks to you and Ralph and Patrik and Joerg and Larry for your kind  
help.

Miklos


On 21/01/2010, at 00:06 AM, Werner LEMBERG wrote:

> > - it seems that grops that came with 10.6.2 has a problem with any  
> > input:
> >
> >  grops:<standard input>:4:
> >        fatal error: cannot create temporary file:
> >                      No such file or directory
> >
> >  I wonder whether Werner could look-up this error message in the
> >  source code and say what the problem is.
>
> The message comes from file libs/libgroff/tmpfile.cpp, function
> `xtmpfile'.  It passes `groffXXXXXX' as a template for the temporary
> file name to the `mkstemp' function and opens it.  A typical name
> tried for such a temporary file is e.g. `groff34BXC1'.  The location
> of this temporary file is a directory which name is specified by the
> following algorithm:
>
>  . If the value of the `GROFF_TMPDIR' environment variable is set,
>    use it.
>
>  . Otherwise, if the value of the `TMPDIR' environment variable is
>    set, use it.
>
>  . On Windows and MSDOS, try the `TMP' and `TEMP' environment
>    variables too.
>
>  . If everything fails, open the file in the `\tmp' directory.
>
> This is explained in groff(1) but a proper hint is missing in
> grops(1).  I've just added it.
>
>
>    Werner