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From: carl hansen <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 11:54 AM
Subject: Re: [bug-gsrc] Failure to compile lsh
To: Jean Louis <[email protected]>

On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 4:06 AM, Jean Louis <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> It is happening after make
>
> But yes, I did manually change into doc directory to try to see what is
> going on and run inside make, that is how you got the repeated error
> message.
>
> Same error message appeared when runing ./make from main directory.
>
> Jean
>
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 10:34:28AM +0000, Brandon Invergo wrote:
> > On Mon, 2016-03-21 at 11:12 +0100, Jean Louis wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Thank you, this is working.
> > >
> > > Now when it comes to make in doc directory:
> > > make
> > >
> > > /usr/bin/groff -ms -Tutf8 srp-spec.nroff | perl ./fixff.pl
> >srp-spec.txtT
> > > troff: fatal error: can't find macro file s
> > > test -s srp-spec.txtT && mv -f srp-spec.txtT srp-spec.txt
> > > Makefile:71: recipe for target 'srp-spec.txt' failed
> > > make: *** [srp-spec.txt] Error 1
> >
> > I'm not really understanding here.  Are you manually going to the doc
> > directory and running make or is this part of a recursive make call
> > (i.e. part of the usual build process when you run make in the top-level
> > directory)?
> >
> > In any case, this is starting to sound like something that needs to be
> > brought up with the lsh maintainer.
> >
> > -brandon
>

On my system the s macros for groff are in
/opt/gsrc/share/groff/1.22.3/tmac/s.tmac
I would try reinstalling groff
make -C gnu/groff install
and see where the s.tmac is put, and see if your unique directory structure
is hiding it.
It should be simple, not hard.

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