On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 7:32 AM Richard Purdie
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> groff chooses a default papersize depending on the value from /etc/papersize
> and failing that, the search domain in /etc/resolv.conf based on the comment
> in configure:
>
> """
> If the top-level domain is two letters and it's not 'us' or 'ca'
> then they probably use A4 paper.
> """
>
> Oddly, my system sets to "a4" in /etc/papersize which means it defaults to
> "letter" since its != "A4".
>
> These defaults ripple through to cause the output of man-db to change 
> depending
> on which default value was selected.

Nice catch!  I just ran into the man-db reproducibility error this
morning while testing dunfell world reproducibility.  Now I can remove
man-db from the exclusion list :-)

Steve

> To resolve this, set a default of "A4" since that covers the larger population
> of the two default values.
>
> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <[email protected]>
> ---
>  meta/recipes-extended/groff/groff_1.22.4.bb | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/groff/groff_1.22.4.bb 
> b/meta/recipes-extended/groff/groff_1.22.4.bb
> index e3984783496..0867452ce7b 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-extended/groff/groff_1.22.4.bb
> +++ b/meta/recipes-extended/groff/groff_1.22.4.bb
> @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ MULTILIB_SCRIPTS = "${PN}:${bindir}/gpinyin 
> ${PN}:${bindir}/groffer ${PN}:${bind
>  EXTRA_OECONF = "--without-x --without-doc"
>  PARALLEL_MAKE = ""
>
> -CACHED_CONFIGUREVARS += "ac_cv_path_PERL='/usr/bin/env perl' 
> ac_cv_path_BASH_PROG='no'"
> +CACHED_CONFIGUREVARS += "ac_cv_path_PERL='/usr/bin/env perl' 
> ac_cv_path_BASH_PROG='no' PAGE=A4"
>
>  do_install_append() {
>         # Some distros have both /bin/perl and /usr/bin/perl, but we set perl 
> location
> --
> 2.27.0
>
>
> 
>
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