Re: groff-1.18: two build bugs

[Michael Deutschmann]

On Fri, 26 Jul 2002, you wrote:
> > First, if I compile using seperate source and build directories
> > (VPATH), I get one type of build failure.  Last lines of output
> > (long ones truncated):
> >
> > GROFF_BIN_PATH=`echo /home/michael/build/groff-build/src/roff/groff
>                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> This is strange.  Please tell me how you've invoked the configure
> script.  The normal way is
> 
>   builddir> /path/to/srcdir/configure
> 
> and everything should work fine.

I invoked it normally -- "../groff-1.18/configure", from my intended
build directory (/home/michael/build/groff-build).  I also retried it with
"/home/michael/build/groff-1.18/configure" to see if the relative path was
confusing things, but that failed in exactly the same way.  (Ie: the
nohup.out files logging the make attempts were identical.)

(Perhaps my directory name confused you.  My "~/build" directory basically
contains everything temporarily on my system in order to compile
something, including the entire source if it isn't already decompressed
somewhere else.

Anyhow, in my setup, proper srcdir = /home/michael/build/groff-1.18, 
and proper object dir = /home/michael/build/groff-build )

---- Michael Deutschmann <address@hidden>