On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 01:17:39AM +0200, Bernd Warken wrote: > I would improve your install commands a bit into: > > test -d old && rm -rf old > test -d groff && mv groff old > git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/groff.git > cd groff > git checkout automake2 > ./bootstrap > mkdir build > cd build > ../configure > make -j >
I did the bootstrapping as described and then 'make dist' to generate a groff-1.22.2.tar.gz. I expanded this file at some other place, went into the new groff-1.22.2 directory and typed ./configure --prefix=/home/<user>/groff_test make make install Now whe I type 'groff_test/bin/groff -v I get : GNU groff version 1.22.2 Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. . . called subprograms: groff_test/bin/groff: can't find `DESC' file groff_test/bin/groff:fatal error: invalid device `ps' However, ls -l groff_test/share/groff/1.22.2/font/devps/DESC gives me -rw-r--r-- 1 privat privat 189 Sep 24 22:12 groff_test/share/groff/1.22.2/font/devps/DESC Probably I did something utterly silly, but no idea what. Please help a poor struggler! ulrich