Re: missing -Tpdf

[G. Branden Robinson]

Hi Doug,

At 2023-07-29T13:00:13-0400, Douglas McIlroy wrote:
> 1.22.4, which I got via Cygwin, lacks -Tpdf, although the accompanying
> man page describes it.  Is it perhaps an installation option that
> Cygwin didn't set?

More or less.  gropdf has some prerequisites, and if they aren't met,
gropdf will not be built.  However, it does seem a bit weird to ship the
man page but not its corresponding executable.

Possibly this was a packaging oversight, maybe arising from a choice not
to support gropdf, but someone forgot to stop shipping the man page.

However, looking at their "groff.cygport" file, it seems like they _do_
support and ship gropdf.

https://cygwin.com/cgit/cygwin-packages/groff/tree/groff.cygport?#n23

Also note line 30.

It's in their groff-perl package.  Do you have that installed?

I'm sorry to see that practically every Perl script we ship as an
executable is mentioned in their package description, _except_ for
gropdf.  Talk about burying the lede...

Let us know!

Regards,
Branden

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