Re: groff-1.23.0.5077-7dcc8 on macOS 15.4 (Sequoia)

"G. Branden Robinson" <[email protected]> Mon, 19 Jan 2026 17:51:28 -0600

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[looping in bug-gnulib list because Nelson raises an issue I need help
with]

At 2026-01-19T16:35:27-0700, Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote:
> I have done test builds of  groff-1.23.0.5077-7dcc8 on 71 systems
> today,

Wow!  (Please accept my apology for the botched tag.)

> for which 14 completed with zero test failure, and have been installed
> on local Ubuntu 24.04 and Debian 12.12 servers.

Hey, that's gr...uh...14/71?

That's not so good.  :(

> I'll report on samples of the build failures in separate
> message, this one for Apple macOS 15.4 (Sequoia):
> 
>   CXXLD    grodvi
> ld: archive member 'libgnu.a' not a mach-o file in 'libgroff.a'
> clang++: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
> 
> % file ./lib/libgnu.a
> ./lib/libgnu.a: current ar archive random library
> 
> % nm ./lib/libgnu.a |grep -c ' T '
> 83
> 
> Evidently, ld on macOS does not like to find a .a file inside
> another .a file.

I don't have any idea what to do about this.  This part of a groff build
is thoroughly dedicated to gnulib.

gnulib mavens, can you help?  groff is largely a C++ project.

Regards,
Branden

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