Correction, the file "charset.alias" is only installed for groff for glibc < 2.1 . The code that reads charset.alias is always created. What could possibly go wrong?
Anyway, I suggest the following minimal patch:
diff --git a/gnu/packages/groff.scm b/gnu/packages/groff.scm
index 77728a5d7..ee2896367 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/groff.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/groff.scm
@@ -62,6 +62,16 @@
`(#:parallel-build? #f ; parallel build fails
#:phases
(modify-phases %standard-phases
+ (add-after 'unpack 'disable-relocatability
+ (lambda _
+ (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")
I filed an upstream bug report:
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?55475
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