>> >> I have complete log files of
>> >> the entire step process of the unpack, configure,
>> make and make check
>> >> steps. I can show you as much of the logged
>> process for each step as
>> >> you want to see. The error is directly related to
>> man.o. I have
>> >> checked /usr/bin and none of the commands from
>> man-db are there.
>> man.c: In function 'make_roff_command':
>> man.c:1510: error: 'TROFF' undeclared (first use in this
>> function)
>> man.c:1510: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported
>> only once
>> man.c:1510: error: for each function it appears in.)
>> man.c:1514: error: 'NROFF' undeclared (first use in this
>> function)
>
> As everybody here knows, I am not very experienced LFS/BLFS user, but I 
> remind having this same problem and the cause was that Groff package had not 
> been properly installed.
>
> The reason: in Groff installation page, the first command is
>
> PAGE=<paper_size> ./configure --prefix=/usr
>
> I had not realized, during copy/paste, that the <paper_size> had to be 
> defined (for me, A4, but for English speaking users, probably it is Letter. 
> After properly recompiling an reistalling Groff, the compilation of Man-DB 
> succeeded.

I had the PAGE=letter ./configure --prefix=/usr

but ran the steps for groff again and then ran the man-db stuff again
and it worked this time. Thanks
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