Arch Linux

Source code for groff-1.19 can be obtained from its German mirror, finally. I've successfully built the package with the following:

# $Id: PKGBUILD,v 1.19 2003/11/06 08:26:13 dorphell Exp $
# Maintainer: judd <jvinet@zeroflux.org>
# Committer: Judd Vinet <jvinet@zeroflux.org>
pkgname=groff
pkgver=1.19
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="GNU troff text-formatting system"
url="http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/groff.html"
depends=('glibc' 'bash' 'gcc')
source=(ftp://groff.ffii.org/pub/groff/groff-$pkgver.tar.gz)

build() {
cd $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver
./configure --prefix=/usr
mkdir -p $startdir/pkg/usr
make || return 1
make prefix=$startdir/pkg/usr install
cd $startdir/pkg/usr/bin
# needed for xman
ln -s eqn geqn
ln -s tbl gtbl
ln -s soelim zsoelim
rm -rf $startdir/pkg/usr/lib
}