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gnu: groff: Disable relocatability.

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* gnu/packages/groff.scm (groff)[arguments]<#:phases>[disable-relocatability]:
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Danny Milosavljevic 2019-01-16 15:00:04 +01:00
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@ -62,6 +62,34 @@
`(#:parallel-build? #f ; parallel build fails
#:phases
(modify-phases %standard-phases
(add-after 'unpack 'disable-relocatability
(lambda _
;; Groff contains a Rube Goldberg-esque relocator for the file
;; "charset.alias". It tries to find the current executable
;; using realpath, a do-it-yourself search in $PATH and so on.
;; Furthermore, the routine that does the search is buggy
;; in that it doesn't handle error cases when they arise.
;; This causes preconv to segfault when trying to look up
;; the file "charset.alias" in the NULL location.
;; The "charset.alias" parser is a copy of gnulib's, and a
;; non-broken version of gnulib's "charset.alias" parser is
;; part of glibc's libcharset.
;; However, groff unconditionally uses their own
;; "charset.alias" parser, but then DOES NOT INSTALL the
;; file "charset.alias" when glibc is too new.
;; In Guix, our file "charset.alias" only contains an obscure
;; alias for ASCII and nothing else. So just disable relocation
;; and make the entire "charset.alias" lookup fail.
;; See <https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=30785> for
;; details.
(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")