Testing this rc on macOS with nixpkgs I noticed the following changes:
* The build fails with:
/nix/store/5vmd3cqj6skjajg0yj9jl8dsddwp0700-bash-5.3p9/bin/bash: \
line 35: ./soelim: No such file or directory
This is likely due to soelim being called without an explicit
absolute or relative path, which fails for isolated build
environments like nixpkgs.
Simply prefixing soelim with `$(builddir)/` seems to fix the issue;
see attached prefix-soelim-with-builddir-during-build.patch.
* Furthermore the build fails with:
GEN doc/line-layout.eps
make: *** [Makefile:20231: doc/line-layout.eps] Error 127
It seems that new build dependencies on Ghostscript and ImageMagick
have been introduced for the $(DOC_LINE_LAYOUT_EPS): "target" in
doc/doc.am by use of the gs and convert commands.
Aside on convert: Depending on the version groff wants to require
newer versions of ImageMagick prefer use of the "new" `magick` command
over the "old" `convert` command.
While introducing new build time dependencies isn't an issue per se,
and Ghostscript has been a soft requirement for building groff for
quite some time, it seems it is now needed in build targets where
previously it was not.
Hence I'd like to suggest that these additions/changes are
communicated appropriately in the build documentation and release
notes—apologies if they already are and I just missed the memo.
Apart from the above minor issues the build for groff 1.25.0.rc1
on nixpkgs (and therefore likely NixOS) succeeds, yay!
I'll continue testing the behaviour of groff 1.25.0.rc1 and report back
in case of any oddities or regressions.
Best
Alexis
diff --git i/Makefile.am w/Makefile.am
index 4ceaae1b1..66a97197e 100644
--- i/Makefile.am
+++ w/Makefile.am
@@ -865,7 +865,7 @@ SUFFIXES += .man
-e "s|[@]TMAC_MDIR[@]|`echo $(tmacdir) | sed -f
$(makevarescape)`/mm|g" \
-e "s|[@]TMAC_S_PREFIX[@]|\\\\%$(tmac_s_prefix)|g" \
-e "s|[@]VERSION[@]|$(VERSION)|g" \
- $< | soelim -I $(srcdir) -I $(builddir) \
+ $< | $(builddir)/soelim -I $(srcdir) -I $(builddir) \
>$@
# Version files - see script "build-aux/git-version-gen".
