[clisp-list] Sorry, but its that darn DVI build issue

[<ch...@wo...>]

I just saw some quite recent comments in a Changelog about somebody
being tired of telling people to 'ignore' DVI-related issues (or some
such) during the build process.

Thing is, the current tarball won't build on Debian Sarge, which
surprised me, as I was under the apparently mistaken impression that
GNU Clisp would pretty much just build on Debian GNU/Linux.

I wouldn't mind at all using the Debian package, but it doesn't appear
to include fastcgi or postgresql (must haves), nor a couple of the other
things I wouldn't mind having available.

It took me the better part of 8-hours effort, but I did finally manage
to get clisp 2.36 on my FreeBSD laptop with the additional stuff I
wanted--mostly the build process itself wasn't comfortable with FreeBSD
4.9, it seems, I think because of 'philosophical' differences, for lack
of a better term--so I had to do some makefile tweaking.

The server I want to run the stuff I develop on my laptop is recentyl
installed and updated vanilla Debian Sarge, and my initial attempt at
the built blew off becuase groff proper (rather than just groff-base)
wasn't installed.  Np, apt-get, fixed.

(Please forgive if I am being silly, but I was a bit surprised that
'configure' didn't handle that somehow.)

Anyway, now make complains:

groff -Tps -mandoc  clisp.1 > clisp.ps
dvipdf clisp.dvi clisp.pdf
dvips: ! unexpected eof on DVI file
Error: /typecheck in --.unread--
Operand stack:
   true   --nostringval--   true   0
Execution stack:
   %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--
   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   1   3
   %oparray_pop   --nostringval--   1   1   3   --nostringval--
   %for_pos_int_continue   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
   --nostringval--
Dictionary stack:
   --dict:1049/1123(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:69/200(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
GPL Ghostscript 8.01: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
make: *** [clisp.pdf] Error 1


I'm not a make/autoconf etc. guru--could somebody point me at a
relatively quick and painless workaround?

Thx!


-- 
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order
to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
-- Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)