Re: groff-1.18: two build bugs

[Russ Allbery]

Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> writes:

>> First, if I compile using seperate source and build directories
>> (VPATH), I get one type of build failure.  Last lines of output
>> (long ones truncated):
>> 
>> GROFF_BIN_PATH=`echo /home/michael/build/groff-build/src/roff/groff
>                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> This is strange.  Please tell me how you've invoked the configure
> script.  The normal way is

>   builddir> /path/to/srcdir/configure

> and everything should work fine.

I ran into the same problem.  The cause, as near as I could determine, was
that the makefiles were trying to run the non-prefixed names (troff, pic,
etc.) and because I was building on Solaris the binaries were actually
built as gtroff, gpic, etc.  As a result, the makefile ended up finding
the system troff, pic, etc. and of course that didn't work.

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Russ Allbery (address@hidden)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>