Subject: Re: Getting repeatedly the same compile error with groff.
To: Christos Zoulas <christos@astron.com>
From: Marcin Jessa <lists@yazzy.org>
List: current-users
Date: 11/07/2005 23:21:46
On Mon, 7 Nov 2005 18:18:54 +0000 (UTC)
christos@astron.com (Christos Zoulas) wrote:

> In article <20051107150659.1e47f984.lists@yazzy.org>,
> Marcin Jessa  <lists@yazzy.org> wrote:
> >Hi guys.
> >
> >I really do not know why but I allways get this error running 
> >./build.sh -O /usr/obj -T /usr/tools distribution
> >on freshly installed boxes. It's been like that for many months.
> >This one was installed from CURRENT (3.9.7) iso and the sources are
> >updated to 3.9.11.
> >And yes, I created tools running ./build.sh -O /usr/obj -T /usr/tools
> >tools
> 
> You must have compiled groff in a way that it left junk in
> one of the source directories (like compiling without an objdir).

No, I am allways sure to use -O /usr/obj with build.sh exactly following
the docs.

> cd to the groff source and:
> 
> find . -type l | xargs rm -f
> make cleandir

This sounds to me like something is wrong with the build scripts.
The same groff-related problem occurs not just on one i386 box I have
NetBSD on but on each of them. Either the docs are wrong or the
build.sh script does something unexpectly wrong. 
Thanks for the answer.

Marcin.