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Date:      Thu, 04 Feb 1999 12:00:09 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Stormy Henderson <stormy@futuresouth.com>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: problems making world 
Message-ID:  <199902042000.MAA16219@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 04 Feb 1999 12:19:50 CST." <19990204121950.F60743@rain.futuresouth.com> 

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> A happy camper (Joao Assad, jfassad@domain.com.br) once wrote...
> > Im running  FreeBSD  3.0-STABLE  Tue Jan 26 16:41:08 GMT 1999 , and when
> > I try to make world It stops with a fatal error.  I tryed like 5 times
> > already .... cvsuped many times but it didnt help.
> 
> > (cd /usr/src/share/doc/psd/title; groff -mtty-char -Tascii -ms -o1-
> > /usr/src/share/doc/psd/title/Title) |  gzip -cn > Title.ascii.gz
> > groff: can't find `DESC' file
> > groff:fatal error: invalid device `ascii'
> 
> Same problem here...I haven't been able to perform a buildworld in a week. 
> Read of a 3rd person on the newsgroup with the same error.  Maybe three of
> us can get noticed where just I didn't..

I just ran one last night.  Make sure that you don't have '-O2' or
higher in your build options in /etc/make.conf; anything over -O is
known to be broken.

-- 
\\  Sometimes you're ahead,       \\  Mike Smith
\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
\\  The race is long, and in the  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\  end it's only with yourself.  \\  msmith@cdrom.com



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