Cygwin did exclude gropdf and pdfgroff. "The accompanying man page" that I meant was groff.1. Perhaps that man page should say that not all groff distributions support pdf.
On Sat, Jul 29, 2023 at 1:35 PM G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Doug, > > At 2023-07-29T13:00:13-0400, Douglas McIlroy wrote: > > 1.22.4, which I got via Cygwin, lacks -Tpdf, although the accompanying > > man page describes it. Is it perhaps an installation option that > > Cygwin didn't set? > > More or less. gropdf has some prerequisites, and if they aren't met, > gropdf will not be built. However, it does seem a bit weird to ship the > man page but not its corresponding executable. > > Possibly this was a packaging oversight, maybe arising from a choice not > to support gropdf, but someone forgot to stop shipping the man page. > > However, looking at their "groff.cygport" file, it seems like they _do_ > support and ship gropdf. > > https://cygwin.com/cgit/cygwin-packages/groff/tree/groff.cygport?#n23 > > Also note line 30. > > It's in their groff-perl package. Do you have that installed? > > I'm sorry to see that practically every Perl script we ship as an > executable is mentioned in their package description, _except_ for > gropdf. Talk about burying the lede... > > Let us know! > > Regards, > Branden
