[bug #51003] "test-groff" can't find doc-macros in the "tmac/mdoc" directory

[G. Branden Robinson]

Update of bug #51003 (project groff):

                  Status:                    None => Need Info              
             Assigned to:                    None => gbranden               

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Follow-up Comment #5:

I think actually Bjarni was right here.  Scrubbing those pointless mdoc/
prefixes from the arguments to the .mso calls makes it straightforward to just
run groff (even a system groff) on the built groff_mdoc.7 with the macros from
the build.

This works for out-of-tree builds:


groff -t -M build/tmac -mdoc build/tmac/groff_mdoc.7 2>&1 >/dev/null


And in-tree ones:


groff -t -M tmac -mdoc tmac/groff_mdoc.7 2>&1 >/dev/null


This happens to fix the test-groff case with no extra effort.


./build/test-groff -t -mdoc ./build/tmac/groff_mdoc.7 2>&1 > /dev/null # out
of tree
./test-groff -t -mdoc ./tmac/groff_mdoc.7 2>&1 > /dev/null # in tree


Now, the question that really animates me is why .mso wasn't screaming to
stderr when it couldn't find mdoc/whatever.  It's supposed to; I was just
hacking on input.cpp:macro_source() the other day.  But that's a separate
bug.

Proposed fix attached.  Ingo, please comment if you have a moment.


(file #45421)
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