Re: [Groff] Requesting help for debugging groff build fail on NetBSD

2015-11-04 Thread carsten . kunze
Hi Ralph, > I think the changes might be from Bertrand Garrigues and Bernd included > them in his commit by accident, thus the description not matching; > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2015-09/msg0.html thank you! Bertrand is the groff build system expert now anyway :) ... Bertra

Re: [Groff] Requesting help for debugging groff build fail on NetBSD

2015-11-04 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Carsten, > The log message by Bernd had simply been "Add new tmac file > pdfpic.tmac and document this" but there are many differences on > > git diff b7441aee00f26cb2f68094d24eae9cc72eb0c678 \ > 9d885c6b342f71594af5d45f37ce65c121641e25 I think the changes might be from Bertrand Garrigues

Re: [Groff] Requesting help for debugging groff build fail on NetBSD

2015-11-04 Thread carsten . kunze
Hi Ralph, > If you're not yet familiar with git-bisect(1), now might be a good time. > :-) The issue occurs between the adjacent commits b7441aee00f26cb2f68094d24eae9cc72eb0c678 and 9d885c6b342f71594af5d45f37ce65c121641e25 The log message by Bernd had simply been "Add new tmac file pdfpic.tma

Re: [Groff] Requesting help for debugging groff build fail on NetBSD

2015-11-04 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Carsten, > I now checked out the git version from August 9th--it does compile. > So the problem may be a groff change since then. If you're not yet familiar with git-bisect(1), now might be a good time. :-) Cheers, Ralph.

Re: [Groff] Requesting help for debugging groff build fail on NetBSD

2015-11-04 Thread carsten . kunze
Hi Anton, thank you! It seems that version 1.22.2 is used here. I now checked out the git version from August 9th--it does compile. So the problem may be a groff change since then. --Carsten

Re: [Groff] Requesting help for debugging groff build fail on NetBSD

2015-11-04 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
Carsten This is my FreeBSD build log: http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~mexas/groff1.22.2-freebsd.log Perhaps if you compare it with yours, you'll be able to narrow down the problem. Anton

Re: [Groff] Requesting help for debugging groff build fail on NetBSD

2015-11-04 Thread carsten . kunze
Hi Anton, > Probably does not help you, > but since you are talking about BSD make, > groff 1.22.2_3 builds fine on FreeBSD. > (3 is the FreeBSD port revision for this groff version). current groff git does also work on an older OpenBSD-"CURRENT" (from May)... I'm am surprised that NetBSD diffe

Re: [Groff] Requesting help for debugging groff build fail on NetBSD

2015-11-04 Thread carsten . kunze
Hi Ralph, > If you use -k then is chem.1.man the only man page that fails to build? > Or does a whole slew of them suffer the same problem? There are quite some man pages failing, may all be the same problem: make[1]: don't know how to make contrib/chem/chem.1 (continuing) make[1]: don't know h

Re: [Groff] Requesting help for debugging groff build fail on NetBSD

2015-11-04 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
Probably does not help you, but since you are talking about BSD make, groff 1.22.2_3 builds fine on FreeBSD. (3 is the FreeBSD port revision for this groff version). http://portsmon.freebsd.org/portoverview.py?category=textproc&portname=groff The port was last updated on 26-AUG-2015. http://svnw

Re: [Groff] Requesting help for debugging groff build fail on NetBSD

2015-11-04 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Carsten, > build of groff on NetBSD fails with > > make all-am > make[1]: don't know how to make contrib/chem/chem.1. Stop If you use -k then is chem.1.man the only man page that fails to build? Or does a whole slew of them suffer the same problem? Cheers, Ralph.

[Groff] Requesting help for debugging groff build fail on NetBSD

2015-11-04 Thread carsten . kunze
Hello, build of groff on NetBSD fails with make all-am make[1]: don't know how to make contrib/chem/chem.1. Stop It did work at least until 10th of August. There had been a change to contrib/chem/chem.am since then: diff --git a/contrib/chem/chem.am b/contrib/chem/chem.am index a8ca170..b6f