Re: [Groff] new groff prerelease

[Keith MARSHALL]

Werner,

You wrote:
> here is a new pre-release of 1.19.2.  Please test! ...

I just ran a build of this prerelease on my Win32/MSYS box.  Two
problems, both associated with either pdfroff or pdfmark.

1) Building in /d/local/test/build (/d/ is MSYS notion of what Win32
   calls drive D:/), the build blows up, apparently passing a -D option
   to groff, when pdfroff trys to format cover.ms.  I've turned on shell
   level "set -x" in the generated pdfroff, and tried to debug this, but
   can see no error in the command line that throws the exception.  Move
   the source and build trees into /home/keith/test, and the problem
   goes away, so I suspect an MSYS bug -- might be worthy of a note in
   PROBLEMS?

2) With a successful build, in /home/keith/test, the generated pathname
   of the pdfmark.ms source file is too long for groff to fit it within
   the margins of the PDF output page.  Groff displays four warnings
   about being unable to split the word, all at this one reference,
   which indeed overflows the edge of the page on the right hand side.
   I've always had this fit on the page, when I previously formatted
   this document, (it is the "groff-1.19.2-pre-20050527" rather than
   simply "groff" which makes the difference, but it does raise a
   previously unnoticed issue -- it is the *build* tree location of
   pdfmark.ms that appears in this document reference, and this file is
   not subsequently installed anywhere else.

   I guess we should install this document source in some example
   directory, and fix up the reference appropriately, for use in the
   generated PDF document.  Do you have any preference as to where that
   should be?


Best regards,
Keith.