On Sun, 2007-09-09 at 20:39 +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > I removed the groff-current source directory, extracted the package, > > and maked again. I discovered something interesting. At first make, > > make stopped much earlier. > > Indeed. It stops with a very mysterious error not related to groff at > all. Is it possible that your netpbm package is broken, containing a > bad `pnmtopng' executable? Can you call this program successfully at > all?
Hmm. Yes, this looks remarkably familiar, for it's precisely this error which I saw, and described as `broken netpbm', when I ran my trial build on Friday. I'd recently set up a new box with Win2K, and I'd used a newer version of netpbm, from GnuWin32, than I'd had when I originally wrote README.MinGW; I resolved it by reverting to the version I had originally used, on the old box. Sorry, I should have described this problem more explicitly, when I observed it. I can't remember which versions I'd used; I'll check, when I go back to work tomorrow. > > "make clean". Maked again, things were different - it went on, > > Because the call with pnmtopng produced an (invalid) gnu.png output > file which is not be removed by a `make clean' but by `make distclean' > only -- gnu.png is normally part of the tarball, not to be created by > a normal build. In fact, it generates a zero length gnu.png, which is sufficient to let the build continue on a second make pass; however, the generated web page will be lacking the associated image. Regards, Keith.
