Re: Request for jgroff help
Hi,
At Mon, 21 May 2001 17:55:54 +0100,
Colin Watson wrote:
> I'm about to adopt the groff package - I already maintain man-db - and
> I'm having problems with the jgroff patch applied by Fabrizio. groff has
> a new upstream version (1.17), which I want to package; however, the
> Japanese patch doesn't apply cleanly to it (there are a large number of
> places where code was simply duplicated in a #ifdef NIPPON section, and
> the code that was duplicated has since changed), and I don't yet know
> the internals of groff well enough to fix it, nor can I read Japanese to
> test the results if I do manage to hack something up. So I think I'm
> going to need some help.
>
> Having cleaned up most of the patch conflicts, the result doesn't
> compile. For example:
>
> env.cc: In method `void environment::add_char(charinfo *)':
> env.cc:305: no matching function for call to
> `word_space_node::word_space_node (units)'
> node.h:201: candidates are: word_space_node::word_space_node(hunits,
> int, width_list *, int, node * = 0)
> node.h:203: word_space_node::word_space_node(hunits,
> width_list *, node * = 0)
> node.h:214: word_space_node::word_space_node(const
> word_space_node &)
>
> I guess there are people here who know the jgroff patch a lot better
> than I do. Is there any chance that some of the people who worked on it
> originally could prepare a patch against the 1.17 source code
> (ftp://ftp.ffii.org/pub/groff/groff-1.17.tar.gz) and send it to me or to
> the BTS? I apologize for this being somewhat short notice. If it's
> already been done and is available elsewhere, a pointer would be greatly
> appreciated.
I'm trying to fix jgroff patch into groff-1.17. Just now, I've succssfully
built groff 1.17 deb with jgroff patch. I put it
http://people.debian.org/~ukai/groff/
It seems to work well at least to browse Japanese manaul pages, but I'm not
tested well and patch is not cleaned up, so please wait a few days.
> If the patch could be made clean enough that upstream would be willing
> to accept it rather than leave it in my inexpert hands, that would be
> even better. :)
Sure :-)
Regards,
Fumitoshi UKAI
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