Re: groff 1.24.0.rc2 available for evaluation

"G. Branden Robinson" <[email protected]> Fri, 30 Jan 2026 14:21:01 -0600

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.printing.groff.general
Message-ID	<20260130202101.aygxphho2jdome52@illithid>

At 2026-01-30T19:58:13+0100, Morten Bo Johansen wrote:
> I believe the two commits below are the culprits.
> 
> On 2026-01-30 Morten Bo Johansen wrote:
> 
> >  GNU roff version 1.24.0.rc2.26-48ff-modified
> >  
> > Even if I enter the correct path to the urw fonts with the
> > "--with-urw-fonts-dir=/home/mojo/.fonts" configure option, which is where my
> > urw fonts are, this is ignored by ./configure and the path to the urw fonts
> > in the configuration summary is set to the incorrect
> > /usr/share/ghostscript/Resource/Font
> 
> 60c6cc6 G. Branden Robinson         ∙ [build]: Add "--without-urw-fonts" option (2/2).

That commit is an indentation change.  It's not impossible that I
screwed that up, but did you isolate this commit with a Git bisection?

> > running autoreconf -fvi does not solve it. Running ./bootstrap gives
> > me this fatal error:
> >
> >   fatal: Unable to checkout 'dc9ad4ec31fb09d247036f6a031e4ec6efbaa26c' in submodule path 'gnulib'
> 
> 8189296 G. Branden Robinson         ∙ [gnulib]: Update to stable/2026-01

That doesn't tell us much.  Updating the hash value associated with a
Git submodule is _how_ one "updates to stable/2026-01" or similar.

It sounds like the Git repo from which you're obtaining gnulib is stale.

Regards,
Branden

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