Re: need macOS/Darwin help (was: preconv test failure on Darwin with nixpkgs 25.11)

Hi Alexis,

At 2026-02-27T10:05:30+0100, Alexis wrote:
> I've done as you've asked and replaced
> src/preproc/preconv/tests/smoke-test.sh from the 1.24.0.rc4
> distribution archive with the smoke-test.sh attached to your mail
> in the build pipeline I have for building groff on macOS Darwin
> using nixpkgs.
> Unfortunately the smoke test still fails. Please find attached the
> nixpkgs build log, hopefully it provides valuable and helpful
> insights.

Thanks!  Yeah, it's not great that the test failed, but given that I
heavily refactored the logic at the end of the script, it appears to
have worked just fine to tell me I made an incorrect assumption about
what macOS/Darwin's libc uses as a character encoding for the "C"
locale, which is fine.  The script failed in a controlled way.

An incorrect assumption should be easy to correct.  :)

I expect to have a fresh cut of the test script for you shortly.

Regards,
Branden

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