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From: jh@efd.lth.se (Joergen Haegg)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: groff-1.08 build problems
Date: 22 Jul 1993 06:20:59 GMT
Organization: Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden
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In article <22jl3h$eta@stimpy.css.itd.umich.edu>, altitude@css.itd.umich.edu (Alex Tang) writes:
|> Hi.  I'm trying to build groff-1.08 so I can get the documentation that came
|> with NetBSD.  It won't build though.  It says, when compiling groff.cc about
|> an error, line 114, parse error before character 0201. ( i think that's it). 
|> 
|> Does anybody have any clues?  

Read the file PROBLEMS.
There is a bug in ash (surprised? :-).
Also, pathconv() should not be used.

But it is described in PROBLEMS.
Watch out if you use gcc 1.39, there is a third fix for this in PROBLEMS.

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