Re: 1.23.0.rc1.2875-9c30-dirty: does not prefer its own same-version subprograms?

[Dave Kemper]

On 9/3/22, Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@sdaoden.eu> wrote:
> Letting aside that --with[out]-doc was blindly removed

This was not done blindly: Ingo posted a lengthy rationale to this
list (http://lists.gnu.org/r/groff/2022-04/msg00009.html), and invited
comment from anyone who wanted to retain the option.  No one spoke up
in its favor.

>   #?0|kent:src$ s-roff -v
>   GNU groff version 1.23.0.rc1.2875-9c30-dirty
>   Copyright (C) 2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>   GNU groff comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
>   You may redistribute copies of groff and its subprograms
>   under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
>   For more information about these matters, see the file
>   named COPYING.
>
>   called subprograms:
>
>   GNU grops (groff) version 1.22.4
>   GNU troff (groff) version 1.22.4
>
> ^ Finds the programs of the Linux distro's groff variant.

You seem to have stumbled across an instance of Savannah #62860:
http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?62860