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[Colin Watson <cjwatson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

groff changed the format of some of its warning messages in 1.21.  The
libx11 build process appears to have been trying to parse this, and the
format change broke this.  However, these messages are only human-
readable, and libx11 really shouldn't have been trying to parse them in
the first place.

(man-db, which I maintain, had a similar problem in its test suite.
This was my fault, and I fixed it properly upstream.)

I tried to adjust the tbl markup to avoid the warnings in the first
place (usually by changing the widest "description" column in a table to
use an "x" column specifier, i.e. an expanded column, rather than a
column specifier beginning with "w", i.e. an explicit minimal column
width), but it seems tricky to do that in all cases.  It's probably also
ultimately a waste of effort since these documents were converted to
DocBook XML upstream in libX11 1.4.1.

Therefore, I suggest the attached patch to simply ignore this specific
warning for now.  You'll need to rerun automake or otherwise update
specs/*/Makefile.in.

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Title:
  Package fails to build