Update of bug #67169 (group groff):
Status: Need Info => Duplicate
Open/Closed: Open => Closed
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Follow-up Comment #15:
[comment #14 comment #14:]
> Adding -rU0 in the Makefile works on my Ubuntu 24.04 system.
Excellent! Thanks for the feedback. That's further evidence this problem is
exactly what Colin thought it was, and a case of bug #64572 being roused by
site-local configuration. Resolving ticket accordingly.
> I didn't understand the point of the man.local change and didn't try that
> one; sorry. I don't have groff 1.24 installed, as Ubuntu 24.04 comes with
> groff 1.23.
No worries. _groff_ 1.24 isn't released but it will (knock wood) soon see its
first release candidate.
What that snippet of *roff logic attempts to do is apply a workaround
disabling hyperlinks when generating PDFs, but only if the running version of
_groff_ is less than 1.24. We know that PDF hyperlinks work in (the
forthcoming) 1.24 so we wouldn't want a "man.local" file carrying this
workaround to defeat the feature in a newer _groff_ installation. (In
Debian-based systems, it's common for contents of "conffiles" in /etc to
persist through many package upgrades, to respect site configuration.)
> I've pushed the xtrs Makefile change to github, along with a comment that
> it's a workaround for https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?67169 and can be removed
> if that bug doesn't affect your system.
Looks good to me.
Thanks raising this issue. Please feel free to report any other _groff_
annoyances to this bug tracker or to the groff at gnu dot org mailing list.
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