Subject: Re: troff coredumps
To: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
From: V. M. Haas <vhaas@cnj.digex.net>
List: port-vax
Date: 03/23/1997 09:31:02
"Anders Magnusson said in a drunken stupor . . ."
> 
> > People - 
> > 
> > In attempting to do an end-to-end recompile from source, I find that many 
> > of the troff, groff and nroff makes for the manpages are coredumping with
> > a signal 11 (segmentation violation).
> > 
> > I tried recompiling the troff, nroff and groff from source and reinstalling
> > them, but the symptoms are unchanged.
> > 
> > The binaries are from the 1.2C snapshot, and I am wondering if others are
> > having this occur.  If so is there a fix?
> > 
> IIRC this appeared when the groff packet was compiled with -O; I think
> that it was grotty and groff that coredumped. Try to recompile it
> without -O and tell if it works better.
> 
> -- Ragge
> 
Ragge - 

I recompiled the (troff) libs and the troff/groff/nroff/tbl (and all) groff
executables (just in case) and it became MUCH better.  Thanks for the help.

-- Mark