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bin/46414: default setting for groff's devps device should be changed
>Number: 46414
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: default setting for groff's devps device should be changed
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: bin-bug-people
>State: open
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Sat May 05 07:15:00 +0000 2012
>Originator: B K
>Release: 5.1
>Organization:
home
>Environment:
NetBSD new-host 5.1 NetBSD 5.1 (BRAD) #0: Sun Feb 19 10:48:07 PST 2012
root@new-host-2:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/BRAD i386
>Description:
Using a particular macro package with groff, I had a document that generated
output that caused ps2pdf to exit with an error. As FreeBSD's ps2pdf had built
the document fine, I started looking for differences in the general build
environment. After a bit of work, I narrowed it down to the different "broken"
settings in /usr/share/groff_font/devps/DESC. On FreeBSD, they've defaulted
this setting to 7 which works around several problems.
Finally, in my case, I changed the Makefile to pass the following arguments to
groff:
-P -b4
which, in turn, forwards them to the grops command.
While this issue won't surprise too many people, I'd suggest enabling this
setting to ensure compatibilityNe with FreeBSD.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
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