Re: groff 1.24.0.rc2 on NetBSD

At 2026-01-27T18:52:25+0100, Bruno Haible wrote:
> On NetBSD 10.0, on the console (with TERM=wsvt25), the build with
> --without-urw-fonts succeeds, but there are 3 test failures. Log is attached.
> 
> FAIL: src/preproc/tbl/tests/boxed-TH-tables-work-on-utf8-device.sh

This is the same as the lone OpenBSD test failure;[1] fixed in my
working copy.

> FAIL: tmac/tests/an_MR-internal-hyperlinks-work-with-pdfmom.sh
> FAIL: tmac/tests/andoc_internal-hyperlinks-work-with-pdfmom.sh

Another blunder on my part.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 6c89507c6..69bea9494 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+2026-01-27  G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
+
+       * tmac/tests/an_MR-internal-hyperlinks-work-with-pdfmom.sh:
+       * tmac/tests/andoc_internal-hyperlinks-work-with-pdfmom.sh: Fix
+       regex to correctly quote a closing parenthesis _not_ used as an
+       ERE grouping operator.  Fixes spurious test failures on NetBSD.
+       Sadly, neither GNU grep 3.6 nor 3.12.14 warned me of my mistake.
+       Thanks to Bruno Haible for the report.
+
 2026-01-27  G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>

        * src/preproc/tbl/tests/boxed-TH-tables-work-on-utf8-device.sh:
diff --git a/tmac/tests/an_MR-internal-hyperlinks-work-with-pdfmom.sh b/tmac/tests/an_MR-internal-hyperlinks-work-with-pdfmom.sh
index 10219e573..0b2ff586a 100755
--- a/tmac/tests/an_MR-internal-hyperlinks-work-with-pdfmom.sh
+++ b/tmac/tests/an_MR-internal-hyperlinks-work-with-pdfmom.sh
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ echo "$output" \

 echo "checking that external links are not rewritten" >&2
 echo "$output" \
-  | grep -Eq '^ *301[[:space:]]+x X pdf: markstart .*/URI \(man:baz\(1\))' \
+  | grep -Eq '^ *301[[:space:]]+x X pdf: markstart .*/URI \(man:baz\(1\)\)' \
   || wail

 test -z "$fail"
diff --git a/tmac/tests/andoc_internal-hyperlinks-work-with-pdfmom.sh b/tmac/tests/andoc_internal-hyperlinks-work-with-pdfmom.sh
index 72d0fd98a..9d97c42e1 100755
--- a/tmac/tests/andoc_internal-hyperlinks-work-with-pdfmom.sh
+++ b/tmac/tests/andoc_internal-hyperlinks-work-with-pdfmom.sh
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ echo "$output2" \

 echo "checking that external links are not rewritten" >&2
 echo "$output2" \
-  | grep -Eq '^ *278[[:space:]]+x X pdf: markstart .*/URI \(man:baz\(1\))' \
+  | grep -Eq '^ *278[[:space:]]+x X pdf: markstart .*/URI \(man:baz\(1\)\)' \
   || wail

 test -z "$fail"

Regards,
Branden

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2026-01/msg00128.html

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