Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 20:40:40 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Forrest Aldrich <forrie@forrie.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Nroff error Message-ID: <20031111204040.GA99710@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20031111152727.01bd8dd8@192.168.1.1> References: <6.0.0.22.2.20031111152727.01bd8dd8@192.168.1.1>
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On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 03:28:03PM -0500, Forrest Aldrich wrote:
> Can someone explain what this error might be:
>
> nroff -man nasm.1 > nasm.man
> troff: fatal error: can't find macro file tty-char
> *** Error code 1
>
> Long-standing issue on the system I'm using -- it affects usage of manpages
> (they don't work). Can't figure it out...
Do you have the file /usr/share/tmac/tty-char.tmac installed, and does
it have the correct ownership and permissions so that the nroff user
can access it?
% ls -lad /usr/share/tmac/tty-char.tmac /usr/share/tmac
drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 1536 Sep 16 21:22 /usr/share/tmac/
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 5102 Sep 16 21:22 /usr/share/tmac/tty-char.tmac
If you have an up-to-date source tree there should be a copy in
/usr/src/contrib/groff/tmac/tty-char.tmac If copying that into place
doesn't work, then I'd recommend going through a complete
{build,install}{world,kernel} cycle to make sure you've got everything
that should be in the base system.
Cheers,
Matthew
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