Re: [Man-db-devel] man-db Guix package: preconv segfaults when hard-coded

[Colin Watson]

On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 06:03:47PM +0100, Pierre Neidhardt wrote:
> Hi Colin, thanks for the prompt reply.
> 
> > Have you considered sending a patch to add a --with-preconv option to
> > man-db's configure script?  It already has similar options for most
> > other bits of groff, so it would seem reasonable.
> 
> I've just tried but it did not change anything.
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> ./configure --help
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> from man-db returns no such option.

I think you misunderstood me.  I'm suggesting that you write a patch
against man-db to add such an option, since it would be better than
having to patch the source in the Guix build.

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Colin Watson                                       address@hidden