Re: groff: not a working c++ compiler

[Werner LEMBERG]

> I have installed a new basic native x86_64 system from source
> today. I used Ubuntu 6.06 x86_64 as the base, and groff installed
> fine.  On the new system, I reinstalled the base system to get rid
> of dependencies to Ubuntu 6.06.  Though the rest did fine (2 times),
> groff complained about not being able to find a working C++
> compiler.  I've appended the log.

Well, in config log you can find this:

  g++ -o conftest -g -O2   conftest.cc  >&5

  [...]

  ./conftest: error while loading shared libraries:
   libstdc++.so.6: cannot open shared object file:
    No such file or directory

This is not related to groff, I think.  Can you manually run g++?
There are not too many programs out there which actually require g++.

> Btw: groff doesn't support the DESTDIR variabe for setting the
> install root (e.g. make $DESTDIR/$PREFIX/usr install)

This has been fixed already in the CVS, which you might try too.


    Werner