Problems compiling groff-1.20 - configure detects "missing" programs but make still tries use them

[Patrik Gräser]

Hi.

I'm unable to compile the new groff from source (gzipped tarball with
md5sum 037851185b2a288c71e9ac9be227ab07) due to the following errors:

GROFF_COMMAND_PREFIX=''; export GROFF_COMMAND_PREFIX; GROFF_BIN_PATH=`echo
/usr/
GROFF_COMMAND_PREFIX=''; export GROFF_COMMAND_PREFIX; GROFF_BIN_PATH=`echo
/usr/
GROFF_COMMAND_PREFIX=''; export GROFF_COMMAND_PREFIX; GROFF_BIN_PATH=`echo
/usr/
xpmtoppm ./gnu.xpm | pnmdepth 15 | \
          pnmtops -noturn -rle >gnu.eps
/bin/sh: xpmtoppm: command not found
/bin/sh: pnmdepth: command not found
/bin/sh: line 1: pnmtops: command not found


During the configure phase I see:

checking for lp... no
checking for command to use for printing PostScript files...
checking for command to use for printing dvi files...

and:

checking for gsos2... no
checking for pnmcut... missing
checking for pnmcrop... missing
checking for pnmtopng... missing
checking for psselect... missing
checking for pnmtops... missing
configure: WARNING: missing programs:

  The programs
     `pnmcut', `pnmcrop', `pnmtopng', `psselect', `pnmtops' and `gs'
  cannot be found in the PATH.
  Consequently, groff's HTML backend (grohtml) will not work properly;
  therefore, it will neither be possible to prepare, nor to install,
  documentation in HTML format.

checking for gawk... gawk
configure: WARNING: missing program:

  The program `gs' cannot be found in the PATH.
  Consequently, groff's PDF formatter (pdfroff) will not work properly;
  therefore, it will neither be possible to prepare, nor to install,
  documentation in PDF format.

checking whether pnmtops can handle the -nosetpage option... no
checking whether we are using the GNU C Library 2.1 or newer... yes


configure sees that I don't have some programs but somehow make still
wants to use them.

Any advice? Are ghostscript, psutils and netpbm required dependancies now?

Thank you
Patrik Graeser