groff: can't find `DESC' fileX

[Hartmann, O.]

Hello.

Sometimes in the early days of FreeBSD 5.1 I stopped accidentially
a 'make world' and since then I can not recompile a 'world' without this error
message. The Only way to stop this and recompile a world is to disable building
shared docs by commenting out

#NO_SHAREDOCS=  true    # do not build the 4.4BSD legacy docs

in /etc/make.conf.

I searched google for this problem and I was told to rebuild groff and other stuff,
but that was for the old 4.X days.
There is also a solution mentioned setting environment variables (I forgot which
ones). Can someone help, please? I would like to build the man pages and do an
'make world' with shared docs enabled.

Lots of thanks in advance,
Oliver



groff: can't find `DESC' file
groff:fatal error: invalid device `ascii'
===> share/doc/usd/13.viref
sed -e 's:^\.so index.so$:&.\\*[.T]:' /usr/src/share/doc/usd/13.viref/../../../.
./contrib/nvi/docs/USD.doc/vi.ref/vi.ref > vi.ref-patched
sed -e 's:^\.so index\.so\.\\\*\[\.T\]$::' vi.ref-patched |  groff -Tascii -U -I
/usr/src/share/doc/usd/13.viref/../../../../contrib/nvi/docs/USD.doc/vi.ref -t -
mtty-char -me -o1- -U -z
groff: can't find `DESC' file
groff:fatal error: invalid device `ascii'
*** Error code 3

Stop in /usr/src/share/doc/usd/13.viref.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/src/share/doc/usd.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/src/share/doc.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/src/share.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/src.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/src.
*** Error code 1






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