Axel --
On Sat, Sep 15, 2012, Axel Kielhorn wrote:
> I wanted to look at the new mom macros and installed groff
> from cvs. I was a little surprised that the pdf files in
> contrib/mom/examples were all 0 bytes long.
>
> And here is the reason:
>
> GROFF_COMMAND_PREFIX=''; export GROFF_COMMAND_PREFIX;
> PDFMOM_BIN_PATH=/Users/axel/src/groff/src/devices/gropdf; export
> PDFMOM_BIN_PATH; /Users/axel/src/groff/src/devices/gropdf/pdfmom
> -F/Users/axel/src/groff/font -F/Users/axel/src/groff/font
> -M/Users/axel/src/groff/tmac -M/Users/axel/src/groff/tmac -M.
> examples/typesetting.mom >examples/typesetting.pdf
>
> groff: couldn't exec gropdf: No such file or directory
>
> PDFMOM_BIN_PATH is set to call pdfmom.
> pdfmom calles gropdf without the PDFMOM_BIN_PATH and fails when gropdf is not
> in $PATH.
> If you installed groff with gropdf earlier it is found in $PATH,
> but the version used is not the current version.
>
> When you install groff and call make again, nothing happens since
> the zero length file already exist. You have to delete the pdf
> files and the stamp and remake.
Thanks for catching this. Here's a patch for
groff-current/contrib/mom/Makefile.sub
====================================================================
--- Makefile.sub.orig 2012-09-15 15:59:48.964497338 -0400
+++ Makefile.sub 2012-09-15 15:59:57.303853174 -0400
@@ -39,6 +39,8 @@
PDFMOM=GROFF_COMMAND_PREFIX=''; \
export GROFF_COMMAND_PREFIX; \
+ GROFF_BIN_PATH=$(GROFF_BIN_PATH); \
+ export GROFF_BIN_PATH; \
PDFMOM_BIN_PATH=$(top_builddir)/src/devices/gropdf; \
export PDFMOM_BIN_PATH; \
$(PDFMOMBIN) $(FFLAG) $(TFLAG)
====================================================================
--
Peter Schaffter
Author of The Binbrook Caucus
http://www.schaffter.ca
