Hi Ingo, Thanks for the build report.
At 2026-02-05T04:09:25+0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > i just tested rc2 for the first time. As far as my testing in rc1 went > previously (i never completed testing rc1), i see no further > regressions in rc2 beyond what i already reported for rc1. > > It appears parallel building now works (at least it did when i > tested it once, which is admittedly not conclusive evidence because > for parallel build errors, intermittent failures are typical). > For now, i will do test builds in serial mode anyway because > that makes diff(1)ing build logs easier. Thoroughly testing > parallel builds is not a priority at this point. > > Here is the next crash on OpenBSD, present in both rc1 and rc2. > > Groff uses the gnulib putenv module. That module tests putenv(3) > in a bogus way, which causes my OpenBSD build to crash: [...] > With the workaround appended below, i now managed for the first time > to get groff to build on OpenBSD. I do not think it is building > correctly just yet, but at least the build now finishes without > crashing. I wonder why Bruno Haible has so much less difficulty building on OpenBSD than you do. Do you not build stock groff, but only attempt a build after applying your raft of patches to make the formatter work more like mandoc(1)? Regards, Branden
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