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diff --git a/gnu/packages/groff.scm b/gnu/packages/groff.scm
index cf392f5468..98f17914bf 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/groff.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/groff.scm
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
;;; Copyright © 2014 Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
;;; Copyright © 2016 Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
;;; Copyright © 2017 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
+;;; Copyright © 2019 Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
+;;; Copyright © 2019 Eric Bavier <bavier@member.fsf.org>
;;;
;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
;;;
@@ -36,14 +38,13 @@
(define-public groff
(package
(name "groff")
- (version "1.22.3")
+ (version "1.22.4")
(source (origin
(method url-fetch)
(uri (string-append "mirror://gnu/groff/groff-" version
".tar.gz"))
(sha256 (base32
- "1998v2kcs288d3y7kfxpvl369nqi06zbbvjzafyvyl3pr7bajj1s"))
- (patches (search-patches "groff-source-date-epoch.patch"))))
+ "14q2mldnr1vx0l9lqp9v2f6iww24gj28iyh4j2211hyynx67p3p7"))))
(build-system gnu-build-system)
(outputs '("out"
"doc")) ;12MiB of PS, PDF, HTML, and examples
@@ -62,9 +63,37 @@
`(#:parallel-build? #f ; parallel build fails
#:phases
(modify-phases %standard-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* "Makefile.in"
+ (("-DENABLE_RELOCATABLE=1") ""))
+ #t))
(add-after 'unpack 'setenv
(lambda _
(setenv "GS_GENERATE_UUIDS" "0")
+ #t))
+ (add-after 'unpack 'fix-docdir
+ (lambda _ ;see https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?55461
+ (substitute* "Makefile.in"
+ (("^docdir =.*") "docdir = @docdir@\n"))
#t)))))
(synopsis "Typesetting from plain text mixed with formatting commands")
(description
@@ -91,41 +120,11 @@ is usually the formatter of \"man\" documentation pages.")
(arguments
`(#:disallowed-references (,perl)
- #:configure-flags '("--docdir=/tmp/trash/doc")
+ #:configure-flags '("--with-doc=no")
,@(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,