[SunHELP] nroff

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Wed Mar 2 09:36:57 CST 2005


I'm not understanding how I can make the build process use groff instead of nroff as I deleted the source dir, recreated it, done a new .configure and gmake still ending up using nroff.  Do I need to temporarily rename nroff and link to groff?

----- Original Message -----
From: Dale Ghent <daleg at elemental.org>
Date: Wednesday, March 2, 2005 10:22 am
Subject: Re: [SunHELP] nroff

> On Mar 2, 2005, at 10:14 AM, listmail at triad.rr.com wrote:
> 
> > Trying to compile cyrus-sasl 2.1.20 and got an error regarding 
> nroff:> --snip--
> > gmake[2]: Entering directory 
> > `/u01/patches/qa/cyrus-sasl-2.1.20/saslauthd'
> > /bin/bash ./config/mkinstalldirs /usr/local/sbin
> >   config/install-sh -c saslauthd /usr/local/sbin/saslauthd
> > nroff -mdoc ./saslauthd.mdoc > ./saslauthd.8
> > nroff: Cannot find library -mdoc
> >
> > gmake[2]: *** [saslauthd.8] Error 2
> > gmake[2]: Leaving directory 
> > `/u01/patches/qa/cyrus-sasl-2.1.20/saslauthd'
> > gmake[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2
> > gmake[1]: Leaving directory 
> > `/u01/patches/qa/cyrus-sasl-2.1.20/saslauthd'
> > gmake: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
> >
> > My first reaction is to upgrade nroff but not seeing a stand 
> alone 
> > package anywhere.  Any ideas?
> 
> Install/use GNU groff instead.
> 
> /dale
> 
> 



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