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Hi, I've recently switched to textproc/groff from Latex for typesetting books. I am however, trying to embed the fonts into the compiled PDF as this is required for some publishers. I am using the args -P -e to force GROPDF to embed the fonts but this has no effect. Moreover, it complains...

I just downloaded the open62541 pkg version 1.3.9 on FreeBSD 14 so that I can learn how to use it. Unfortuately there is no documentation specific for it FreeBSD Could someone provide me an example of how I can create a open62541 server using it.

Hello. I have strange behavior of this commands. GNU grep is able to find binaries with '-IL' option, but BSD grep is not. > ggrep -LI . ./sheepdog-1.0.1-1_amd64.deb ./sheepdog-1.0.1-1_amd64.deb > grep -LI . ./sheepdog-1.0.1-1_amd64.deb > Why?

In many C programs, I have the need to convert an errno into a printable string. Since strerror is not thread-safe and perror only works with stderr, I resort to using strerror_r, see strerror_r. However, there are two different definitions of this function: int strerror_r(int errnum, char...

So I've been using FreeBSD in the past and didn't have much time to play with it to understand everything. At that time I had no idea what libre(free) software was and now that I looked into it I agree with the idea that we should all have the freedom to run the software for any purpose, study...

While I was browsing source code of the master FreeBSD repository, I noticed a /gnu directory containing a clone of various tools from the GNU Project (such as gcc, gperf, gdb, binutils ..). This seems little weird since GCC support (and the dependency on GNU toolchain) has been replaced from a...

Greetings Earthlings, I want to give GNUstep a try, but I'm missing TextEdit.app. I tried to compiled the backbone project which includes the app, but it doesn't compile. I've contacted build maintainer who helped me fixed an obvious problem but it still doesn't compile. The app is available...