Hello all Here I'd like to report the problems I had when installing the port of groff 1.20.1 on my computer. I have been able to overcome them but I suspect that something is wrong with this port because it did't work out-of-the-box.
To make it work I had to go through a little text adventure, described below. If this is a bug in the port then I'd like to draw the maintainers' atten- tion to it so they can fix it. 1. I had removed the previous installation of groff that came with Mac OS X, and when I tried running groff after successful installa- tion through macports was reported, I got two errors: groff couldn't find its FONT directory and its TMAC directory. Macports had created those directories at /opt/local/share/groff/1.20.1 while by default groff expects to find them under usr/share. To fix this problem I added these two lines to my .bash_profile: export GROFF_FONT_PATH=/opt/local/share/groff/1.20.1/font export GROFF_TMAC_PATH=/opt/local/share/groff/1.20.1/tmac that tell groff where to look for device descritpion files, fonts and macros. I think that these paths must be set up by macports automatically. 2. Groff started to work now, but the man command still didn't, becuase in its configuration file /private/ets/man.conf nroff and troff commands were still referring to the old groff location at usr/bin, so I had to redirect them as follows: TROFF /opt/local/bin/groff -Tps -mandoc NROFF /opt/local/bin/groff -Tascii -man JNROFF /opt/local/bin/groff -Tnippon -mandocj EQN /opt/local/bin/eqn -Tps NEQN /opt/local/bin/eqn -Tascii JNEQN /opt/local/bin/eqn -Tnippon TBL /opt/local/bin/tbl REFER /opt/local/bin/refer PIC /opt/local/bin/pic 3. MANPATH and MANPATH_MAP commands for the new %opt/local paths had to be added analogously to the existing ones for the /usr directory, so that man could see the man pages installed through macports 4. Now man started to work but it incorrectly displayed terminal control charactes, which had to be fixed by adding the -R option: PAGER /usr/bin/less -iRs BROWSER /usr/bin/less -iRs Please, let me know if someone else has encountered similar problems and if they should be reported somewhere in addition to this mailing list. Thanks in advance, Anton _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users