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Bjarni Ingi Gislason <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.printing.groff.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
After cloning groff

commit ed68a4670c002a07cbaeba9e27d1ac2925449bf7 (HEAD
-> master, tag: 1.24.0.rc4, origin/master, origin/HEAD)
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
Date:   Fri Feb 20 12:01:27 2026 -0600

, bootlogging and configuring (in directory build) with

GNU roff version 1.24.0.rc4 configuration summary
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 installation directory prefix    : /usr/local
 C++ compiler and options         : /usr/bin/g++-15 -Walloc-zero -Walloca
-Wall -Wextra -Wformat=2 -Wattribute-warning -Wdate-time -Wformat-security
-Wfree-nonheap-object -Winit-self -Wparentheses -Wpedantic
-Wredundant-decls -Wshadow -Wsign-compare -Wstack-protector
-Wstringop-overflow=4 -Wtype-limits -Wuninitialized -Wunused
-Wunused-function -Wunused-parameter -Wvla -Wvla-parameter 
-Wno-format-nonliteral  -fdiagnostics-generate-patch -fhardened
-freport-bug -fsanitize=bool -fsanitize=enum
-fsanitize=integer-divide-by-zero,shift,null -fsanitize-trap=all
-fno-omit-frame-pointer -fsanitize=signed-integer-overflow
-fsanitize=return
-fsanitize=alignment,object-size,vptr,pointer-overflow -fno-common -ftrapv
-fvar-tracking-assignments -fsanitize=null -fsanitize=nonnull-attribute
-fsanitize-address-use-after-scope -ftree-vrp -funsigned-char   -O2 
-Wmismatched-new-delete -Wdelete-incomplete -Wextra-semi -fcheck-new
-std=gnu++23 -Woverloaded-virtual -Wc++20-extensions -Wc++23-extensions  
-DGCC_LINT -DGNULIB_NO_VLA -Dlint
 use libgroff's memory allocator  : no
 C compiler and options           : /usr/bin/gcc-15 -Walloc-zero -Walloca
-Wall -Wextra -Wformat=2 -Wattribute-warning -Wdate-time -Wformat-security
-Wfree-nonheap-object -Winit-self -Wparentheses -Wpedantic
-Wredundant-decls -Wshadow -Wsign-compare -Wstack-protector
-Wstringop-overflow=4 -Wtype-limits -Wuninitialized -Wunused
-Wunused-function -Wunused-parameter -Wvla -Wvla-parameter 
-Wno-format-nonliteral  -fdiagnostics-generate-patch -fhardened
-freport-bug -fsanitize=bool -fsanitize=enum
-fsanitize=integer-divide-by-zero,shift,null -fsanitize-trap=all
-fno-omit-frame-pointer -fsanitize=signed-integer-overflow
-fsanitize=return
-fsanitize=alignment,object-size,vptr,pointer-overflow -fno-common -ftrapv
-fvar-tracking-assignments -fsanitize=null -fsanitize=nonnull-attribute
-fsanitize-address-use-after-scope -ftree-vrp -funsigned-char   -O2  
-Wbad-function-cast -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-prototypes
-Wnested-externs -Wold-style-definition -Wstrict-prototypes 
-Wold-style-declaration  -std=gnu23 -Wflex-array-member-not-at-end
-fharden-control-flow-redundancy -Wreturn-mismatch
-Wincompatible-pointer-types   -DGCC_LINT -DGNULIB_NO_VLA -Dlint
 Perl interpreter version         : 5.40.1
 Ghostscript command              : gs
 URW fonts directory              : /usr/share/fonts/type1/urw-base35/
 gropdf service level             : full
 X11 support                      : enabled
 X11 app defaults directory       : /usr/local/lib/X11/app-defaults
 default paper format             : A4
 'groff -l' uses print spooler    : no
 preconv can use uchardet library : yes
 can build groff.{info,html,txt}  : yes
 can build groff.{dvi,pdf}        : yes
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configure: Default X11 application defaults directory assumed.

  The application defaults files for gxditview (GXditview and
  GXditview-color) will be installed in the following directory.

    /usr/local/lib/X11/app-defaults

-.-

Error message:

  GROFF    doc/webpage.html
pre-grohtml: fatal error: 'pre-grohtml' exited with status 4; re-run with a
different output driver to see diagnostic messages
make[2]: *** [Makefile:19486: doc/webpage.html] Error 4
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/bg/git/groff/build'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:13322: all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/bg/git/groff/build'
make: *** [Makefile:7584: all] Error 2
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