Groff completely busted.

Robin P. Blanchard Robin.Blanchard at gactr.uga.edu
Mon May 5 10:37:39 PDT 2003


> > I'm rather at a loss to understand how this is happening to you.
> > 
> > I have been tracking -CURRENT on a daily basis, and have not
> > had the problem.
> > 
> > I have seen stuff like this when awk was changed (from gawk
> > to the one-true-awk), because awk was used to build the boot loader.
> > 
> > Perhaps it would be enough to be sure your
> > /usr/src/contrib/groff is completely refreshed (as in "rm -fr 
> > /usr/src/contrib/groff" then update it via "cvs update" or 
> > CVSup, whichever suits), then 
> > "make world"?
> 
> I'm completely baffled as well...I've tried:
> 
> # cd /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/groff/
> # make clean && make cleandir && make obj && make depend && 
> make all && make install
> 
> And it's still busted...Then tried:
> 
> # /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/groff/font/devascii/
> # make clean all install
> 
> ...still busted...
> 
> Going to try removing the groff sources completely, re-cvsup 
> and build. Will report shortly.

Negative. Blew away /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/groff/ and re-cvsup'ed,
rebuilt/installed. Still hosed:

# man setenv
Formatting page, please wait.../usr/bin/groff: can't find `DESC' file
/usr/bin/groff:fatal error: invalid device `ascii'
Done.

Please help.
:)


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