[GRASS5] man error kills 5.3 compile using alt build sys on OS X

[Scott Mitchell]

Works fine using the groff syntax you suggested.  Thanks.

On 12-May-04, at 02:57, Glynn Clements wrote:

>
> Scott W Mitchell wrote:
>
>> It's starting to look like a bug or at least a peculiarity of Mac OS  
>> X,
>> since it seems to have got past the manual page part of the build  
>> fine on
>> my Linux system (still working through the rest of the build).
>>
>> When I first run the build script, it configures find, then it does  
>> all of
>> the copying and converting steps of html->man pages, but then I get:
>>
>> Converting:  
>> /Volumes/stipaUnix/cvsgrass/freshgrass/html/html/xganim.html
>> to
>>
...
>> /Users/smitch/macgrass-build/dist.powerpc-apple-darwin7.3.0/man/cat1/ 
>> ascii_formats.1
>> No manual entry for
>> /Users/smitch/macgrass-build/dist.powerpc-apple-darwin7.3.0/man/man1/ 
>> ascii_formats.1
>> make[1]: ***
>> [/Users/smitch/macgrass-build/dist.powerpc-apple-darwin7.3.0/man/ 
>> cat1/ascii_formats.1]
>> Error 1
>> make: *** [docs] Error 2
>> ERROR: compilation error.
>>
>> Does this rely on behaviour of GNU man ?
>
> It looks like it. It assumes that man will accept a full pathname to a
> troff file in place of a simple name.
>
>>  Apple uses BSD man.
>>
>> Unfortunately, this creates a zero byte file in the cat section, which
>> means subsequent makes just go on to the next file, creating more and  
>> more
>> zero byte preformatted output files.
>>
>> Now I'm stuck - I thought I could compare to the traditional build  
>> system
>> to figure out the difference, but my ignorance of how the build  
>> system and
>> make work has brought me to a dead end.
>

...

> If you can figure out a command which will accept the full pathname to
> a troff file as an argument and output plain text, you can set MAN2CAT
> to that command when running "make", e.g.
>
> 	make MAN2CAT='...'
>
> On Linux, 'groff -Wall -t -Tlatin1 -mandoc' should provide an accurate
> substitute for "man". Although g.html2man doesn't appear to use
> tables, so the use of tbl shouldn't be necessary.
>
> -- 
> Glynn Clements <glynn.clements at virgin.net>
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