> [...] I configured in a separate build directory, and uncovered a
> small problem with the `doc' directory. Specifically, the `gnu.eps'
> file needs to be in the build directory when `webpage.html' is
> formatted, but the make doesn't copy it from the source.
>
> Attached patch fixes this, [...
Jim Reid wrote:
I very much doubt if anyone changed groff's build/install procedure
with any
intent to make it in any way Linux specific;
Fact: somebody *did* change the build/install stuff. It used to work
on BSD/OS. It had done so since at least 1996. Now it doesn't. To
some extent, this spec
Werner,
To facilitate transferring from my CVS sandbox (on my Linux machine) to my
Win32 box, for testing the relocation patch, I did a `make dist'. I then
used the resultant tarball to source this unofficial distribution on to the
Win32 host. (I'm not quite done with the relocation patch, BTW
> When i process a pic file into a postscript file, for some reason it
> gets shrunk automatically, how do i stop this? i type this in the
> command line:
>
> pic floorB.pic | psroff -ms -t > floorB.ps
>
> and get this output:
>
> pic: 60 X 42 picture shrunk to 7 X 4.9
Uh, oh, whatever you use, i
Am Mittwoch, 27. April 2005 18:06 schrieb Zvezdan Petkovic:
>
> FWIW, the only reason I do not use 1.19 branch is that it doesn't work
> with gpresent. The request .PAUSE inside a pic creates a vertical move,
> and the figure ends up quite different from what it should be. :-)
> Has anything been
On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 09:16:33AM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>
> > It was BSD/OS 4.2 too. I never found the time to get to the bottom
> > of the problem and abandoned updating groff on that box. Somebody
> > changed groff's build/install stuff to make it more Linux-specific,
> > breaking back
When i process a pic file into a postscript file, for some reason it gets
shrunk automatically, how do i stop this? i type this in the command line:
pic floorB.pic | psroff -ms -t > floorB.ps
and get this output:
pic: 60 X 42 picture shrunk to 7 X 4.9
Wasn't sure if i could attach the pic file so
On Apr 27, 2005, at 02:44, Keith Marshall wrote:
I'm almost sorry I bothered to mention Jim Reid at all; I had
forgotten what
an irascible character he is, and I felt rather disinclined to even
grace
this drivel with a response.
Personal attacks and insults, especially unfounded ones, have no pla
> It was BSD/OS 4.2 too. I never found the time to get to the bottom
> of the problem and abandoned updating groff on that box. Somebody
> changed groff's build/install stuff to make it more Linux-specific,
> breaking backwards compatibility with the installed base.
??? This is nonsense. Norm
> It turns out that the problem is that search_path::search_path is
> called from a static constructor, but static constructors are called
> *before* the global environment pointer is set, so getenv() doesn't
> work in a static constructor. Not being a C++ expert, I have no
> idea whether this is
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