[bug-gsrc] Fwd: Failure to compile lsh

[carl hansen]

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From: carl hansen <address@hidden>
Date: Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 11:54 AM
Subject: Re: [bug-gsrc] Failure to compile lsh
To: Jean Louis <address@hidden>

On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 4:06 AM, Jean Louis <address@hidden> wrote:

Hello,

It is happening after make

But yes, I did manually change into doc directory to try to see what is
going on and run inside make, that is how you got the repeated error
message.

Same error message appeared when runing ./make from main directory.

Jean

On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 10:34:28AM +0000, Brandon Invergo wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-03-21 at 11:12 +0100, Jean Louis wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Thank you, this is working.
> > 
> > Now when it comes to make in doc directory:
> > make
> > 
> > /usr/bin/groff -ms -Tutf8 srp-spec.nroff | perl ./fixff.pl >srp-spec.txtT
> > troff: fatal error: can't find macro file s
> > test -s srp-spec.txtT && mv -f srp-spec.txtT srp-spec.txt
> > Makefile:71: recipe for target 'srp-spec.txt' failed
> > make: *** [srp-spec.txt] Error 1
>
> I'm not really understanding here.  Are you manually going to the doc
> directory and running make or is this part of a recursive make call
> (i.e. part of the usual build process when you run make in the top-level
> directory)?
>
> In any case, this is starting to sound like something that needs to be
> brought up with the lsh maintainer.
>
> -brandon

On my system the s macros for groff are in /opt/gsrc/share/groff/1.22.3/tmac/s.tmac

I would try reinstalling groff

make -C gnu/groff install

and see where the s.tmac is put, and see if your unique directory structure is hiding it.

It should be simple, not hard.