Re: groffer from 1.18.1.3 doesn't compile

[Matthew Burgess]

Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> Matthew Burgess wrote:
>
> > Thanks.  Would you mind also slipping in the following patch, which 
> > enables groff to be compiled with gcc-4.1.x?
>
> Will do, of course.  If you apply those two changes, does groff
> successfully compile and build the documentation files?

Unfortunately, due to the way Linux From Scratch bootstraps, we get the 
following output from configure, meaning I can't immediately test the 
generation of the docs:

checking for pnmcut... missing
checking for pnmcrop... missing
checking for pnmtopng... missing
checking for gs... missing
checking for psselect... missing
configure: WARNING:

Since one or more of the above five programs can't be found in the path,
the HTML backend of groff (grohtml) won't work properly.  Consequently,
no documentation in HTML format is built and installed.

> On my
> GNU/Linux platform (using 1.18.1.3) I currently experience a strange
> crash in `grn' which I can't locate -- and which definitely wasn't
> there at the time I've released 1.18.1.  I suspect either a compiler
> problem (4.0.2) or a GNU libc bug (2.3.5).  Sigh.

Well, I'll try building psutils, netpbm and ghostscript to meet the 
dependencies and see if I can duplicate the problem.  It might be a 
while until I can provide feedback on that though.  Also, we're using 
gcc-4.1.1 and glibc-2.5, so I suspect the bug you're apparently hitting 
may well have been fixed.  I've also re-added bug-groff as I must've 
trimmed it by accident earlier on, whoops!

Regards,

Matt.