On Sat, 22 Nov 2003, Dan Harrison wrote:

> I'm trying to install /usr/pkgsrc/security/audit-packages, and in the
> middle of the make I get this:
>
> nroff -mandoc
> /usr/pkgsrc/security/audit-packages/work/audit-packages.8 >/usr/pkgsrc/security/audit-packages/work/audit-packages.0
> nroff: not found
> *** Error code 127

nroff is in the groff package. If nroff is not available then it should
have a DEPENDS on groff.

> In addition, whenever I try to read the perl 5.0 man page, I get this:
>
> man: Formatting manual page...
> /usr/bin/nroff: not found

Where did you get this man?

(I have man-db in pkgsrc-wip.)

> I did a basic install originally, but have all of the package source
> and have installed a few of them. What is 'nroff' and where can I get
> it?

View a raw (not formatted) man page with less and look at the syntax of
the "ROFF".

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://www.reedmedia.net/