Re: [Groff] new automake system

[Bertrand Garrigues]

Hi Ulrich,

On Wed, Sep 24 2014 at 10:52:39 PM, Ulrich Lauther <address@hidden> wrote:
> I did the bootstrapping as described and then 'make dist' to generate a 
> groff-1.22.2.tar.gz.
> I expanded this file at some other place, went into the new groff-1.22.2
> directory and typed 
>         ./configure --prefix=/home/<user>/groff_test
>         make
>         make install
>
> Now whe I type 'groff_test/bin/groff -v
>
> I get :
> GNU groff version 1.22.2
> Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>  .
>  .
> called subprograms:
>
> groff_test/bin/groff: can't find `DESC' file
> groff_test/bin/groff:fatal error: invalid device `ps'
>
> However, 
>   ls -l groff_test/share/groff/1.22.2/font/devps/DESC
> gives me
>   -rw-r--r-- 1 privat privat 189 Sep 24 22:12 
> groff_test/share/groff/1.22.2/font/devps/DESC
>
> Probably I did something utterly silly, but no idea what.
>
> Please help a poor struggler!

Hm ... I see no obvious mistake in your commands, and could not
reproduce the problem. I have no idea of what's going on. Could you
please apply the attached patch to trace the error we have when
attempting to open the DESC file ?

Regards,

--
Bertrand Garrigues

diff --git a/src/libs/libgroff/searchpath.cpp b/src/libs/libgroff/searchpath.cpp
index 105dfdf..7101ec6 100644
--- a/src/libs/libgroff/searchpath.cpp
+++ b/src/libs/libgroff/searchpath.cpp
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ along with this program. If not, see 
<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
 
 #include "lib.h"
 
+#include <stdio.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <assert.h>
 #include <errno.h>
@@ -134,6 +135,9 @@ FILE *search_path::open_file(const char *name, char **pathp)
        a_delete path;
       return fp;
     }
+    else {
+       fprintf (stderr, "Failed to open %s: %s\n", path, strerror(errno));
+    }
     a_delete path;
     if (*end == '\0')
       break;