2007/9/10, Werner LEMBERG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > 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? > > > > In msys, if I run it with some option, say --version, it gives me > > correct result, but error if no option. If I run it in cmd.exe, with > > no option, it starts a new line and waits for input. > > This is suspicious. Try to convert a PNM file manually into the PNG > format. If that fails, please try to find a working pnmtopng > executable and report which netpbm (or pnmtopng) version is failing > and which one is working. >
I have tried netpbm 10.18.4 (with libpng 1.2.7). It works. The problematic one is netpbm 10.27 (with libpng 1.2.8). All from GnuWin32. > > > You can test that manually: Simply say > > > > > > tbl < mixed_pickles.roff > mixed_pickles.tbl > > > > > > and check whether this call runs successful. Otherwise, please use > > > gdb to produce a backtrace. > > > > The call fails, triggering that pop-up window. I only have some > > experience with kd, so please guide me how to do it using gdb, > > thanks. > > Say > > gdb --args tbl mixed_pickles.roff > > then press `r' (and ignore tbl's output to stdout). If tbl crashes, > press `bt full' and cut'n'paste the backtrace. > I will do this later. > > Werner > -- Yu-ning Feng
