Re: groff 1.24.0.rc2 available for evaluation

On 2026-01-30 G. Branden Robinson wrote:

> 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?

No, I just looked at the version I had and which worked and then I looked
upwards in the git tree for commits that contained "urw" and then ran
./configure ... on them and found the commit where it failed to accept the
path to the urw fonts I had specified. I then looked at some of the
immediately foregoing commits and checked if they were working or not. I
seemed to find that the commit I pointed to was the culprit. Would git
bisect do anything other than that? I am not a git acrobat, so if you would
like me to do a bisection, could you advise me a little?

>> > 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.

I now tried with a freshly fetched git tree and that solves this problem,
but the other problem persists:

./configure --prefix=$HOME/.local/stow/$(basename $PWD) --with-urw-fonts-dir=/home/mojo/.fonts/

[...]

GNU roff version 1.24.0.rc2.27-a0857 configuration summary
----------------------------------------------------------------------
 installation directory prefix    : /home/mojo/.local/stow/groff
 C++ compiler and options         : g++ -g -O2
 use libgroff's memory allocator  : no
 C compiler and options           : gcc -g -O2
 Perl interpreter version         : 5.42.0
 X11 support                      : enabled
 X11 app defaults directory       : /home/mojo/.local/stow/groff/lib/X11/app-defaults
 default paper format             : A4
 'groff -l' uses print spooler    : no
 use URW fonts for PDF output     : yes
 URW fonts directory              : /usr/share/ghostscript/Resource/Font
 preconv can use uchardet library : yes
 can build groff.{info,html,txt}  : yes
 can build groff.{dvi,pdf}        : yes


Regards,
Morten