From: faith@bodie.cs.unc.edu (Rik Faith) Subject: Re: Groff binary problems Date: 8 Aug 1992 12:38:42 GMT
One of the frequent errors that people have been having with the groff
binaries from tsx-11 is due to the fact that I linked the static binaries
with the hard math library, and those binaries will sometimes dump core
when used on a system that doesn't have a 387 (sometimes, because floating
point isn't used a lot).
The solution is to get the shared binaries (for gcc 2.2.2) which have
"sbin" in their name. Most of these are on tsx-11. If not, you can find
them in ftp.cs.unc.edu:/pub/faith/linux/utils. [The other solution is to
recompile the source code. Source code with patches for linux and
instructions for compiling are on tsx-11 (or ftp.cs.unc.edu).]
Sorry for the problem, I haven't had time to rebuild groff with the soft
math libraries, and since 2.2.2d should be out soon with jump tables, I've
been putting it off until then anyway. . .