Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 01:12:58 -0800 (PST) From: Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: docs/25164: makewhatis(1) seems to be fouling up Message-ID: <200102170912.BAA57942@cfcl.com>
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>Number: 25164
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: makewhatis(1) seems to be fouling up
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sat Feb 17 01:10:01 PST 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Rich Morin
>Release: FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
Canta Forda Computer Laboratory
>Environment:
FreeBSD cfcl.com 4.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE #0:
Fri Jul 28 14:30:31 GMT 2000
jkh@ref4.freebsd.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386
>Description:
There is some broken text in /usr/share/man/whatis. As I
understand it, this text is processed out of the man/man*
files by makewhatis(1). As the (nroffed form of the) man
page in question appears to be OK, the program may be NG.
Of course, it could also be that the manual page's troff
code is broken in a way that gets by man(1), but offends
makewhatis(1). Too deep for me...
>How-To-Repeat:
% grep '^ed(1)' /usr/share/man/w*
ed(1), -(1) - ed, red text editor
% zcat /usr/share/man/cat1/ed.1.gz | head -5
ED(1) FreeBSD General Commands Manual ED(1)
NAME
ed, red - text editor
>Fix:
Either fix all the man pages that use the construction in
question or fix makewhatis(1) to accept it...
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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