[looping in groff list to keep its developers informed] [looping in bug-gnulib list because Nelson raises an issue I need help with]
At 2026-01-19T16:35:27-0700, Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote: > I have done test builds of groff-1.23.0.5077-7dcc8 on 71 systems > today, Wow! (Please accept my apology for the botched tag.) > for which 14 completed with zero test failure, and have been installed > on local Ubuntu 24.04 and Debian 12.12 servers. Hey, that's gr...uh...14/71? That's not so good. :( > I'll report on samples of the build failures in separate > message, this one for Apple macOS 15.4 (Sequoia): > > CXXLD grodvi > ld: archive member 'libgnu.a' not a mach-o file in 'libgroff.a' > clang++: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see > invocation) > > % file ./lib/libgnu.a > ./lib/libgnu.a: current ar archive random library > > % nm ./lib/libgnu.a |grep -c ' T ' > 83 > > Evidently, ld on macOS does not like to find a .a file inside > another .a file. I don't have any idea what to do about this. This part of a groff build is thoroughly dedicated to gnulib. gnulib mavens, can you help? groff is largely a C++ project. Regards, Branden
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