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[bug #57630] test-groff clobbers environment's GROFF_*_PATH variables
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G. Branden Robinson |
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[bug #57630] test-groff clobbers environment's GROFF_*_PATH variables |
Date: |
Thu, 8 Oct 2020 08:16:37 -0400 (EDT) |
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Update of bug #57630 (project groff):
Status: Need Info => Wont Fix
Open/Closed: Open => Closed
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Follow-up Comment #10:
After four months without discussion, I'm closing this one for now. I don't
think test-groff is intended for use like a real system executable; mainly it
drives the regression tests, as Ingo noted.
But that's not all I use it for.
I also have some shell aliases 'tg' and 'tgu' (the latter adding the -Tutf8
parameter) which I run _all the time_ from my groff git checkout. I can't
even count how many experiments I've conducted this way, using a build tree's
groff as a kind of REPL.
$ alias tg tgu
alias tg='./build/test-groff'
alias tgu='./build/test-groff -Tutf8'
I recommend that close observers of (and participants in!) groff development
do something similar.
I'm a bit way of changing test-groff such that it operates in a fused
installation/build environment, something is never seen in any other
circumstance.
If someone wants to use such a thing as a means of uncovering possible bugs,
then I advise copying the script to their $HOME/bin or similar and making the
changes documented earlier in this bug's discussion. And then, if problems
turn up, trying to construct a minimal reproducer script to get at the
misbehavior.
I'm therefore resolving this bug as wontfix, without prejudice, to use a U.S.
legal metaphor.
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