Hi Bruno,

At 2026-10-14T20:12:37+0200, Bruno Haible wrote:
> On Alpine Linux 3.24, FreeBSD 15.0, OpenBSD 7.9, I see a test failure:
> 
> FAIL: contrib/mm/tests/GETST-works.sh
> 
> Find attached the log files.

Thanks.  I'm pretty confident this is
<https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?68775>.

> It is strange that the error is:
> mmroff: fatal error: "./groff -rRef=1 -z -mm -t -T utf8 -P -cbou 
> ../contrib/mm/tests/artifacts/use-reference.mm" exited with status 4096
> I thought that the maximum portable exit status in POSIX was 127
> (or 255, if you allow process termination by signal).

It's the return value of Perl's `close()`.  It'd probably be a good idea
to clarify this diagnostic message.

Regards,
Branden

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