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| -rw-r--r-- | gnu/packages/groff.scm | 30 |
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diff --git a/gnu/packages/groff.scm b/gnu/packages/groff.scm index 77728a5d78..cf392f5468 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/groff.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/groff.scm @@ -96,6 +96,36 @@ is usually the formatter of \"man\" documentation pages.") ,@(substitute-keyword-arguments (package-arguments groff) ((#:phases phases) `(modify-phases ,phases + (add-after 'unpack 'disable-relocatability + (lambda _ + ;; Groff contains a Rube Goldberg-esque relocator for the + ;; file "charset.alias". + ;; It tries to find the current executable using realpath, + ;; a do-it-yourself search in $PATH and so on. + ;; Furthermore, the routine that does the search is buggy + ;; in that it doesn't handle error cases when they arise. + ;; This causes preconv to segfault when trying to look up + ;; the file "charset.alias" in the NULL location. + ;; The "charset.alias" parser is a copy of gnulib's, and a + ;; non-broken version of gnulib's "charset.alias" parser + ;; is part of glibc's libcharset. + ;; However, groff unconditionally uses their own + ;; "charset.alias" parser, but then DOES NOT INSTALL the + ;; file "charset.alias" when glibc is too new. + ;; In Guix, our file "charset.alias" only contains an + ;; obscure alias for ASCII and nothing else. + ;; So just disable relocation and make the entire + ;; "charset.alias" lookup fail. + ;; See <https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=30785> + ;; for details. + (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 'install 'remove-non-essential-programs (lambda* (#:key outputs #:allow-other-keys) ;; Keep only the programs that man-db needs at run time, |