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The Heirloom Documentation Tools: troff, nroff, and related general-purpose document typesetting processor utilities github.com

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via epilys 11 months, 1 week ago | archived | plain text cache | source | 2 comments

epilys wrote :

Caution: the compile/install process is very weird. These notes helped me use it on a Debian system:

Each time I re-install a fresh Linux distribution, one of the first things I need to do is to compile the Heirloom Documentation Tools. However some adjustments have to be performed; I write them here in order to recall them later:

• download the sources from http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/doctools.html

• type: sudo apt-get install g++ libc-dev bison flex

• uncompress the tarball

• enter the heirloom-doctools directory

• edit mk.config and change three lines:

  • replace INSTALL=/usr/ucb/install with INSTALL=/usr/bin/install
  • replace PREFIX=/usr with PREFIX=/opt/heirloom
  • replace SHELL=/sbin/sh with SHELL=/bin/sh

• run make

• run sudo make install

This will perform a clean install into /opt/heirloom and you have to fix your PATH accordingly.

Source: https://gist.github.com/baruchel/0653cc7c041d58d21b202c8e94e4ea30

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  vladimyr10 months, 3 weeks ago | link | reply | source

  Caution: the compile/install process is very weird. These notes helped me use it on a Debian system:

  Whenever I'm in doubt I tend to search for Homebrew formulas to see how they do it. In case of heirloom-doctoolsofficial tap does not contain a build formula but there is 3rd party tap named homebrew-troff that has heirloom-doctools.rb.

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    epilys10 months, 3 weeks ago | link | reply | source

    I've used homebrew for 2 years but I still don't know what taps and formulas mean :S

    Good advice, thanks!