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From: David Chappell <David.Chappell@mail.trincoll.edu>
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 11:44:55 -0500
Subject: Re: PPR: RE: PPR 1.43 released

Pete Geenhuizen wrote:

> I just tried to install 1.43 and got the following error:
> 
> The source file "*.5.man" doesn't exist.
> *** Error code 1
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `install-troff'
> Current working directory /ppr-1.43/docs/refman
> *** Error code 1
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `install'
> Current working directory /ppr-1.43/docs
> *** Error code 1
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `install'

Oddly this bug doesn't lead to a fatal error with GNU make on Linux.  
Where the Makefile says "for d in 1 5 8" it should say "for d in 1 8".  
It looks like there will have to be a 1.44 release.  :-(

> 
> All the uprint man pages are missing from docs/refman, should they be copied
> over or is make supposed to handle that?

They have been moved to docs/uprint.

> 
> FYI ppr-1.41 works just fine under Solaris 7 and 8.
> 
> Pete
> 
Good.  I will add them to the list.  Is Solaris 8 SunOS 5.8?