"Boris Gjenero said in a drunken stupor . . ."
> 
> I'm trying to compile current and I have a problem.  No matter what I do
> I can't get troff to work. (This means almost everything that tires to
> build man pages will die.) Troff will get a segmentation fault while
> processing its own manpage.  I have recompiled the rest of the groff
> stuff that it needs and I've also recompiled libm and libgnumalloc.  It
> *still* dies in the same way.  Is troff broken?  Should I just recompile
> more stuff first (libc, gcc, ld, as, etc.)?  

There was a mention of how to repair this in the port-vax mailing list 
archives.  But for now, you can work by it by specifying 
setenv NOMAN 1 
(csh syntax) as part of your environment when starting the make.

> 
> I'm doing this on a MicroVAX II which is currently running the snapshot
> from arch/vax and a 1.3_ALPHA kernel.  The system is quite stable and
> I'm not really suspecting it... I've recompiled lots of big stuff on it
> and it worked.
> 
> BTW.  I've had some other annoyances with current, but at least I could
> solve them.  It seems that what I *really* need is a time machine so I
> can ship current binaries back in time and use them to compile current. 
> Failing that, the Makefile should at least build the stuff that needs to
> be rebuilt before building current.
> 
> Thanks for any assistance you can offer.
> 
> PS.  Please CC me if you reply to this.  I have just subscribed to
> current-users, and I don't have confirmation yet.  I wouldn't want to
> miss any replies that happen before the subsciption is
> processed.           
> 
> -- 
> |  Boris Gjenero <bgjenero@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>              |
> |  Home page:  http://www.undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca/~bgjenero/     |
> |  "Luke, you're going to find that many of the truths we cling to   |
> |  depend greatly on our own point of view." - Obi-Wan Kenobi, ROTJ  |
> 


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-- Mark
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