Groff issues with latest FreeBSD-4.x build

[Forrest Aldrich]

Hi there,

When I do that, the same exact thing happens... and it's not making any 
sense to me.   What database(s) are dependent upon by "man"?

# zcat /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz |nroff -man
troff: fatal error: can't find macro file tty-char



Forrest


At 11:21 PM 8/1/2003, you wrote:
>Forrest Aldrich <forrie at forrie.com> writes:
>
> > I just rebuilt the entire system from CVS, and still get this problem:
> >
> > # man man
> > Formatting page, please wait...troff: fatal error: can't find macro
> > file tty-char
> > Done.
> >
> > This can't be that complex of an issue, which is probably why I'm
> > still figuring it out.   Doesn't the 'man' command need to find its
> > tmac files in /usr/share/tmac?  If so, then there's something wrong
> > with the man configuration somewhere (something I'm not familiar with).
> >
> > Any pointers would really be appreciated, nobody else responded.
>
>
>Hmm.  Not exactly my thing, but what happens if you try the formatting
>directly?
>
>zcat /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz |nroff -man