Re: groff-1.23.0.5077-7dcc8 on CentOS 7.9 with clang15.0.3

"G. Branden Robinson" <[email protected]> Mon, 19 Jan 2026 19:12:06 -0600

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.printing.groff.general
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[CCing groff@gnu to keep its developers in the loop]

At 2026-01-19T18:00:46-0700, Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote:
> The build of groff-1.23.0.5077-7dcc8 on CentOS 7.9 with clang15.0.3
> failed these tests:
> 
> 	FAIL: contrib/mom/examples/test-mom.sh
> 	XFAIL: tmac/tests/pdf_bookmark-starting-with-control-char-works.sh
> 	XFAIL: src/roff/groff/tests/current-language-and-environment-in-sync.sh
> 	XFAIL: src/roff/groff/tests/html-device-works-with-grn-and-eqn.sh
> 	XFAIL: src/roff/groff/tests/stringup-request-transforms-non-basic-latin.sh
> 	FAIL: tmac/tests/an_UR-works.sh
> 	XFAIL: tmac/tests/e_footnotes-work-with-columns.sh
> 	# XFAIL: 5
> 	# FAIL:  2
> 
> They look similar to ones that I reported earlier for some other
> systems, so I won't repeated log snippets here.
> 
> I'm resubmitting that build with some gcc versions.
> 
> It is almost 6pm here, so I'm heading home for dinner.  More
> tomorrow...

You've done more than a day's work already.  Thank you!

> 	FAIL: contrib/mom/examples/test-mom.sh

That may be failing due to missing fonts; this test is really coarse and
simply counts the number of pages of output.  That nevertheless suffices
to diagnose when mom(7) documents can't get at the fonts they want.

> 	FAIL: tmac/tests/an_UR-works.sh

I'll bet that's got the same cause as
<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2026-01/msg00081.html>.

Some enterprise-grade security sandbox jerking our elaborate grohtml
architecture around.  I have medium-term plans to attack that problem.
A nefarious idea occurred to me...but I'll save until after release when
I can pour myself a drink.

If I can (a) fix the symbolsl.afm make(1) problem, and (b) figure out
how I'm offending the shell portability gods in check-delimiter-
validity.sh, I hope this 57 failure number will come down significantly.

Regards,
Branden

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