Hi,
On 2026-07-19 at 10:08-05:00, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> At 2026-07-19T10:38:35+0200, Alexis (surryhill) wrote:
> > 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
> [...]
> >
> > GEN doc/line-layout.eps
> > make: *** [Makefile:20231: doc/line-layout.eps] Error 127
>
> Thanks for the report. I've fixed both of these
> and pushed the fixes to Git.
Thanks got the quick fixes. The build on Guix is facing
the same issues, could the rc2 tarball be published
so the build status can be confirmed?
Alternatively, I'm trying to switch to building from Git
(we are trying to avoid artefacts like generated configure
where possible) and without the .git directory
(which is not reproducible) configure is failing to find
the version:
configure flags: ("CONFIG_SHELL=.../bin/bash"
"SHELL=.../bin/bash"
"--prefix=...groff-1.25.0.rc2"
"--enable-fast-install"
"--docdir= groff-1.25.0.rc2-doc/share/doc/groff"
"--build=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu")
configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --enable-fast-install
checking that groff version string has valid format... invalid
configure: groff's version string must start with three decimal
integers separated by dots. "" does not match.
How is this version string constructed?
Kind regards,
Phong
