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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 62e844e1ed..77728a5d78 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/groff.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/groff.scm @@ -62,34 +62,6 @@ `(#: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") |