Re: [groff] Inexplicable error using tbl(1) 1.19.2 on macOS

[Larry Kollar]

> John Gardner <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Now, we all know Apple are clueless and continue to ship the most ancient
> versions of software fathomable, but I find it impossible to believe that
> at some point in Groff's history, there was a published tbl(1) release
> whose only purpose was to spit confusing error messages, and nothing more.

I think Apple has GNU-itis, a malady that makes one think *roff is good only
for formatting manpages. If you’ve only run into trouble with tbl, you’re 
luckier
than me (so far).

The solution, of course, is to download the groff source, and do:

        ./configure —prefix=/usr
        make
        sudo make install

Thus overwriting the installed version. I have to `make install` again after
system updates, but that’s no biggie.

        Larry