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 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
