On Thu, Feb 09, 2023 at 06:50:51PM -0600, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > If users of macOS of recent vintage would like to pull groff Git HEAD > and try a build, I'd appreciate hearing of your experiences.
Happy to report that I succeeded to build the current groff HEAD on macOS with ease using the following steps based on nixpkgs (https://nixpkgs.org): % uname -a | fmt -72 Darwin $HOST 22.3.0 Darwin Kernel Version 22.3.0: Thu Jan 5 20:48:54 PST 2023; root:xnu-8792.81.2~2/RELEASE_ARM64_T6000 arm64 % sw_vers ProductName: macOS ProductVersion: 13.2 BuildVersion: 22D49 % nix --version nix (Nix) 2.11.1 % git rev-parse HEAD 55d35d5949cd4396abadb040cf2680df7a34b074 % git clean -fqX # start from a clean the workspace % rm -rf outputs # remove result of previous build % nix develop nixpkgs-dev#groff # create a nixpkgs based build env $ ./bootstrap # the nxpkgs based build env is launched with bash $ ./configurePhase # all *Phase commands are provided by the build env $ ./buildPhase # and run the appropriate commands for details see $ ./installPhase # https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/tools/text/groff/default.nix $ ls -lsa outputs/out/bin/groff 416 -rwxr-xr-x 1 $USER staff 209808 Feb 10 07:21 outputs/out/bin/groff $ ./outputs/out/bin/groff --version | head -1 GNU groff version 1.23.0.rc2.22-55d3 Best Alexis
