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Re: discrepant groff configurations
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Ralph Corderoy |
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Re: discrepant groff configurations |
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Fri, 27 Mar 2020 15:39:45 +0000 |
Hi Colin,
> Really, the weird thing is not so much the existence of the current
> symlink, as the fact that the directories under $(dataprogramdir) are
> versioned.
True.
> but it's quite possible that it would have been better to abolish the
> versioned directories.
And not too late?
> Anyway, groff's build system was more or less completely rewritten
> between 1.22.3 and 1.22.4 (Bertrand's automake conversion), so that
> will certainly confound any attempts to compare different
> distributions if you aren't comparing like version for like.
I'm 1.22.4 on an out-of-date Arch Linux.
groff(1) here refers to an non-existant, and odd sounding, directory.
$ man groff | grep site-tmac | xargs ls -d
ls: cannot access '/usr/lib/groff/site-tmac': No such file or directory
/usr/share/groff/site-tmac
$
The existence of site-tmac as a sibling of 1.22.4 adds pressure for the
latter to remain, otherwise 1.22.4's content could all move up a level.
--
Cheers, Ralph.