Re: [Groff] Hyphenation in German

[Ulf Bro]

Am Samstag, 3. Juli 2004 22:46 schrieb Werner LEMBERG:

> 1.19 isn't the newest (which is 1.19.1).  It isn't necessary to remove
> the old stuff; `./configure; make; make install' (after expanding the
> groff-1.19.1.tar.gz archive) overwrites the binaries but puts the
> macro stuff in a versioned directory.

Well, I did exactly that. Configure, Make, Make Install. Meaning I had to 
install the gcc and c++ compilers too which obviously isn't standard any 
more...

> Remember that RPMs (from most distributions) by default install data
> into the /usr/... hierarchy (/usr/bin, /usr/share/, ...), while a GNU
> source code archive by default installs into
> /usr/local/... (/usr/local/share, etc.).

Aha...

> > So what I did was to copy hyphen.den and tmac.de first to:
> >
> > /usr/local/share/groff/site-tmac/
>
> This is the right place for a groff binary installed in /usr/local/bin.
>
> > then, as it still didn't work,
>
> Why not?  Where does groff search?  What does strace report?

It is 33 kB big. I have attached it. Sorry if this causes inconvenience to 
anybody.

Ulf

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