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   "Andrew Cottrell" <acottrel AT ihug DOT com DOT au>
Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 14:42:41 +0200
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Subject: Re: groff-1.16 & GCC 3.02 broken, groff 1.17.2  & GCC 3.02 okay
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On 8 Dec 2001 at 13:00, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > From: "Andrew Cottrell" <acottrel AT ihug DOT com DOT au>
> > Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 19:49:12 +1100
> > 
> > Today I updated to the latest CVS LIBC on my XP box which I now use GCC 3.02
> > (with Allegro fix). In checking that all the packages build I found that
> > groff-1.16 does not build due to C++ issues.
> > 
> > I downloaded the latest stable release 1.17.2 from the GNU Groff home page
> > and it compiles okay,
> 
> IMHO, it's not a good idea to use 1.17, since the HTML device driver
> there is completely rewritten, and won't work with DJGPP unless
> ported.  Porting it is a non-trivial job.  (Volunteers are welcome,
> as always.)  That's the only reason I didn't release a port of 1.17
> several months ago, when it hit teh GNU FTP site.
> 
> So I think it's better to fix whatever C++ problems you saw in 1.16,
> and release an updated port.  That way, we can also make sure Groff
> will build with older GCC versions as well (I think I tried 2.95
> series at the time).
> 
> Perhaps posting the error messages you see in 1.16 would be a good
> starting point.
> 

It's enough to 'set CXX=gpp' and rerun arch/djgpp/config.bat.
Or maybe add 'set CXX=gpp' to config.bat before running configure.
At least after that it builds without problems using recent CVS version of 
DJGPP and gcc-3.0.3 20011205 (prerelease) under Win98SE.
No more testing done. 

Andris