Mail Archives: cygwin-developers/1999/08/08/10:14:15
Hi!
August 7 1999 Corinna Vinschen corinna AT vinschen DOT de wrote:
CV> Unfortunately, with the 5-Aug snapshot, nothing has changed in the described
CV> behaviour of `man' and `make'.
CV> The output of man is as with 3-Aug snapshots:
CV> /usr/local/bin/groff: can't find `DESC' file
CV> /usr/local/bin/groff:fatal error: invalid device `ascii'
CV> 0 0 [main] D:\bin\sh.exe 1034 sig_send: error sending signal(-3) to
CV> pid 1034, Win32 error 6
CV> regardless of the setting of ntsec.
CV> It's always bash, which has this problem!
CV> I have made tests with zsh and ksh as /bin/sh with funny results:
CV> zsh:
CV> make runs without problems
CV> man results in no output but in no sig_send error, too.
CV> ksh:
CV> make runs without problems
CV> man results in
CV> /usr/local/bin/groff: can't find `DESC' file
CV> /usr/local/bin/groff:fatal error: invalid device `ascii'
CV> but without the sig_send error message.
groff error was due to 1-Aug change in constructor handling, which
Chris had reverted in the 2-Aug Snapshot. groff is written in c++, and
one of constructors, which adds /usr/local/share/groff to path list in
which groff should search for devascii/DESC file, wasn't called
because of this change. So, groff tried to find its device info in
current directory. But all later snapshots i've tried -- they all work
ok with man.
Egor. mailto:deo AT logos-m DOT ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19
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