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| -rw-r--r-- | gnu/packages/groff.scm | 28 |
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diff --git a/gnu/packages/groff.scm b/gnu/packages/groff.scm index 77728a5d78..62e844e1ed 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/groff.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/groff.scm @@ -62,6 +62,34 @@ `(#: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* "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") |