Re: groff 1.25.0.rc1 on Alpine Linux

Bruno Haible via discussion of the GNU roff typesetting system and related software <[email protected]> Thu, 23 Jul 2026 23:54:41 +0200

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On Alpine Linux 3.24, there is a build failure:

$ make
...
  GEN      neqn
  GEN      nroff
  GEN      contrib/chem/chem.1
/bin/sh: soelim: not found
make[2]: *** [Makefile:21308: contrib/chem/chem.1] Error 127
make[2]: *** Deleting file 'contrib/chem/chem.1'
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/bruno/groff-1.25.0.rc1/build-64'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:13314: all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/bruno/groff-1.25.0.rc1/build-64'
make: *** [Makefile:7634: all] Error 2