> 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.
The behaviour of groff hasn't changed in last few years, except the
introduction of SGR escape sequences in grotty (which can be turned
off with various means).
> (I had to link /usr/bin/tbl to /usr/bin/gtbl.)
Hmm. Why that?
> A good question to begin with is probably "why does that --legacy
> NROFF_OLD_CHARSET need to be there at all?"
I see this option the first time. It seems the Fedora people have
cooked something up by theirselves, making it incompatible with a
vanilla groff installation.
Werner
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