Re: groff 1.25.0.rc1 testing

"Alexis (surryhill)" <[email protected]> Sun, 19 Jul 2026 21:26:01 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.printing.groff.general
Message-ID <al0NOE-wa9Rf9vJn@kei>
Hi Branden,

thanks for addressing the issues so quickly.

> I now have groff using that macro, which requires a new `configure`
> option for people building from Git, but no changes for distribution
> archive users.

That's good to know I'll change my nixpkgs setup to include
--enable-maintainer-mode in the flags for configure when building
from git.

> Excellent news!  Did you try "make check"?

Yes, when building groff with nixpkgs the checks are run by default;
here's the summary:

  groff> Testsuite summary for GNU roff 1.25.0.rc1
  groff> ============================================================================
  groff> # TOTAL: 363
  groff> # PASS:  348
  groff> # SKIP:  10
  groff> # XFAIL: 5
  groff> # FAIL:  0
  groff> # XPASS: 0
  groff> # ERROR: 0


Best
Alexis