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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>
Cc: Pierre Neidhardt <mail <at> ambrevar.xyz>, 30785 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#30785: Man pages truncated, repeated
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 13:29:18 +0100

Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org> skribis:

> Correction, the file "charset.alias" is only installed for groff for glibc < 2.1 .
> The code that reads charset.alias is always created.
> What could possibly go wrong?
>
> Anyway, I suggest the following minimal patch:
>
> diff --git a/gnu/packages/groff.scm b/gnu/packages/groff.scm
> index 77728a5d7..ee2896367 100644
> --- a/gnu/packages/groff.scm
> +++ b/gnu/packages/groff.scm
> @@ -62,6 +62,16 @@
>      `(#:parallel-build? #f   ; parallel build fails
>        #:phases
>        (modify-phases %standard-phases
> +        (add-after 'unpack 'disable-relocatability
> +          (lambda _
> +            (substitute* "src/libs/libgroff/Makefile.sub"
> +             (("-DENABLE_RELOCATABLE=1") ""))
> +            ;; That file contains a crash bug--so make sure that
> +            ;; its contents are not there.
> +            (call-with-output-file "src/libs/libgroff/relocate.cpp"
> +              (lambda (port)
> +                #t))
> +            #t))
>          (add-after 'unpack 'setenv
>            (lambda _
>              (setenv "GS_GENERATE_UUIDS" "0")
>
> I filed an upstream bug report:
>
> https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?55475

Neat!  Pierre, can you confirm it fixes the issue?

If it does, I agree with Pierre that you should add a comment
referencing this bug and upstream’s, but apart from that, please go
ahead!

Thanks,
Ludo’.

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