diff --git a/patches/groff/jinx-working-patch.patch b/patches/groff/jinx-working-patch.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..080ab86e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/patches/groff/jinx-working-patch.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+diff --git groff-clean/Makefile.in groff-workdir/Makefile.in
+index 72ae6fd..42db143 100644
+--- groff-clean/Makefile.in
++++ groff-workdir/Makefile.in
+@@ -5877,7 +5877,7 @@ mom_srcdir = $(top_srcdir)/contrib/mom
+ #
+ # Use '-K utf8', not '-k', in case 'configure' didn't find uchardet.
+ MOMPDFMOM = \
+-  GROFF_COMMAND=test-groff \
++  GROFF_COMMAND=true \
+   GROFF_COMMAND_PREFIX= \
+   GROFF_BIN_PATH="$(GROFF_BIN_PATH)" \
+   $(PDFMOMBIN) $(FFLAG) $(MFLAG) -M$(mom_srcdir) -K utf8 -p -e -t \
+@@ -6020,7 +6020,7 @@ DOC_GROFF = \
+ @HAVE_URW_FONTS_TRUE@pdfmomoption = -P-W
+ @HAVE_URW_FONTS_TRUE@groffmanpagesoption = -P-e
+ DOC_PDFMOM = \
+-  GROFF_COMMAND=test-groff \
++  GROFF_COMMAND=true \
+   GROFF_COMMAND_PREFIX= \
+   GROFF_BIN_PATH="$(GROFF_BIN_PATH)" \
+   $(PDFMOMBIN) $(MFLAG) $(FFLAG) -ww -b $(pdfmomoption) --roff
diff --git a/recipes/groff b/recipes/groff
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4d96e08b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes/groff
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+name=groff
+revision=1
+from_source=groff
+imagedeps="build-essential groff"
+hostdeps="xgcc xbinutils libstdc++-v3"
+deps="base ncurses libx11 libxaw"
+
+configure() {
+	${source_dir}/configure --host=x86_64-astral --prefix=${prefix} --with-x gl_cv_func_getopt_gnu=yes
+}
+
+build() {
+	make -j ${parallelism} GROFFBIN="/usr/bin/groff" GROFF_BIN_PATH="/usr/bin" PDFMOMBIN="/usr/bin/pdfmom"
+}
+
+package() {
+	make install DESTDIR=${dest_dir}
+}
diff --git a/source-recipes/groff b/source-recipes/groff
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1ae79b16
--- /dev/null
+++ b/source-recipes/groff
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+name=groff
+version=1.24.1
+source_method=tarball
+tarball_url="https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/groff/groff-${version}.tar.gz"
+tarball_sha512=86545c67042ad034a464a371d0587f8f0b449070c82fb1cfbcd0368c2e249624778d43e95d6cacd79cbe5b441142db96fdc3ab6222638337702f05a71c0990be
+hostdeps="automake"
+
+prepare() {
+	cp -v $(find /usr/local/share/automake* -name config.sub) ./build-aux/        
+}