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[bug #62551] [PATCH] doc/groff.texi: Fix content and style nits


From: Dave
Subject: [bug #62551] [PATCH] doc/groff.texi: Fix content and style nits
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2022 13:44:01 -0400 (EDT)

Follow-up Comment #5, bug #62551 (project groff):

[comment #3 comment #3:]
> It should these days!  Or, rather, it will if you have the
> requisite tools installed.

I think I fell into the cracks of the timeline.  I last built on April 23,
just before commit c21f1a0e
<http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/commit/?id=c21f1a0e>.  I can't
tell from the commit log whether this is the commit that pulled the plug on
"make doc" -- it updated NEWS to that effect, but it's characterized at the
top as a refactor, which to me implies no functionality change.  This commit
was a follow-on to Ingo's commit 3805d2a0
<http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/commit/?id=3805d2a0>, which _was_
in the tree I built, so _maybe_ I was supposed to get these files with an
unadorned "make"?  Anyway, I won't consider this a bug until I've built with
all the latest changes and see what happens then.

> What happens when you cd into your build directory (a no-op
> if you build in the source tree) and say
> 
> 
> make groff.dvi
> make groff.pdf
> 
> 
> ?

If I do that literally, I get "No rule to make target 'groff.dvi'.  Stop." 
But if I do what I deduce you meant, "make doc/groff.pdf", I get... a couple
thousand lines of errors and a build failure. \-:  None of this was output
when I built the rest of groff, so (at least as of a month and a half ago) a
simple "make" did not attempt to run this step.

The errors appear to be related to outdated TeX tools, so also are not
something I think groff need be concerned with.  A huge number of the lines
are repetitions of:

kpathsea: Running mktextfm lcircle10
/usr/share/texmf-dist/web2c/mktexnam: Could not map source abbreviation  for
lcircle10.
/usr/share/texmf-dist/web2c/mktexnam: Need to update ?
mktextfm: Running mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; ; nonstopmode;
input lcircle10
This is METAFONT, Version 2.7182818 (TeX Live 2020 Gentoo Linux) (preloaded
base=mf)


kpathsea: Running mktexmf lcircle10
! I can't find file `lcircle10'.
<*> ...our; mag:=1; ; nonstopmode; input lcircle10
                                                  
Please type another input file name
! Emergency stop.
<*> ...our; mag:=1; ; nonstopmode; input lcircle10
                                                  
Transcript written on mfput.log.
grep: lcircle10.log: No such file or directory
mktextfm: `mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; ; nonstopmode; input
lcircle10' failed to make lcircle10.tfm.
kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.



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