On Friday, 4 July 2025 16:04:36 BST you wrote: > Follow-up Comment #40, bug #67207 (group groff): > > [comment #39 comment #39:] > > > I didn't get any actionable feedback on my changes to BuildFoundries or > > gropdf, so I'm abandoning them for now. > > That didn't work out well. Or it did, depending on your point of view. > > > Issues with them can be addressed in future tickets. > > Dave discovered at least one in bug #67268. > > In trying to address it, I blundered into a bunch of familiar land mines. A > lot goes wrong because BuildFoundries.pl and gropdf.pl often neglect to > check for ill-formed input files or errors when writing files, and even > when problems are detected, these programs typically just throw warnings > and keep going. > > That's not what we want when building _groff_ itself. > > See bug #67268, which I'll be updating shortly.
That's a little misleading. Dave's bug was not about about a perl script not
validating its input, rather it revealed flaws in the makefile. You may have
discovered such validation issues while stumbling about your minefield. I say
"yours" given that you are the main contributor to devpdf.am:-
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Ingo Schwarze 2
Bernd Warken 4
Deri James 9
Werner Lemberg 17
Bertrand Garrigues 34
G. Branden Robinson 208
Total 274
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It is unfortunate you didn't consider sharing a map of the mines you blundered
into rather than having a good old whinge about my work here!
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