Under Fedora Core 6, installing groff 1.19 from CVS totally breaks man(1).
All manual pages display as blank. This appears to be the result of
a mismatch between what /etc/man.conf expects and the way groff-1.19
behaves.
Just to dispose of the obvious:
1) Yes, I did "configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man", and
groff binaries appear to be in the right places. (I had to link
/usr/bin/tbl to /usr/bin/gtbl.)
2) "zcat /usr/share/man/man1/man.1.gz | /usr/bin/nroff -man" yields a
manual-page display, so the froff binaries are working.
Modifying /etc/man.conf so that
NROFF /usr/bin/nroff -c --legacy NROFF_OLD_CHARSET -mandoc 2>/dev/null
becomes
NROFF /usr/bin/nroff -c -mandoc 2>/dev/null
appears to solve the problem.
I don't know whether this is a groff issue, a man issue, or a Fedora
packaging problem. This mail is going to the man maintainer and the
groff list; please talk among yourselves until you figure out what needs
to be done.
A good question to begin with is probably "why does that --legacy
NROFF_OLD_CHARSET need to be there at all?"
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<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>
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