Re: groff 1.23.0.rc4 on Alpine Linux

[G. Branden Robinson]

Hi Bruno,

At 2023-04-16T00:53:26+0200, Bruno Haible wrote:
> On Alpine Linux, I see the same 1 test failure as reported at
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2023-03/msg00010.html :
> 
> FAIL: contrib/gdiffmk/tests/runtests.sh

This is documented in the release announcement under "Caveats" and in
the "PROBLEMS" file.

Unless the Alpine system has a GNU diffutls other than 3.9 installed,
that is...

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* gdiffmk doesn't work / its automated test fails.

A defect in GNU diffutils 3.9 (January 2023) causes gdiffmk to
malfunction.  See <https://debbugs.gnu.org/db/61/61193.html>.
---end snip---

Regards,
Branden

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