Sean Porterfield wrote:
>> From: Fernando Oliveira
> 
>> 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 believe that Groff page could be improved with some remark to call 
>> attention for this.
> 
> I have to agree with that - I almost missed it too.  I think I read the
> page a second time before starting and figured it out, but it could be
> made a bit more obvious.

I supposed we could change it to:

   PAGE=<#paper_size#> ./configure --prefix=/usr

which creates a syntax error it it's not changed.  If we do that, it 
probably will require a change to ALFS.

   -- Bruce


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