Hi Branden! I'm improving the Linux man-pages build system, to add a 'distcheck' target, and have control over newly added warnings vs longstanding ones.
I found that most output devices have warnings in the same pages, but
here's one that I've only seen in -Tpdf. It might be a bug in -Tpdf.
$ make .tmp/man/man7/path_resolution.7.pdf.set --debug=print
TROFF .tmp/man/man7/path_resolution.7.pdf.set
! (troff -man -Tpdf -wbreak <.tmp/man/man7/path_resolution.7.pdf.troff
2>&1 >.tmp/man/man7/path_resolution.7.pdf.set) \
| grep ^ >&2
troff:man7/path_resolution.7:135: warning: macro 'and' not defined
(possibly missing space after 'an')
make: *** [share/mk/build/pdf/troff.mk:22:
.tmp/man/man7/path_resolution.7.pdf.set] Error 1
make: *** Deleting file '.tmp/man/man7/path_resolution.7.pdf.set'
Here's a small reproducer:
alx@debian:~/tmp$ cat dot.man
.TH dot 7 2024-02-16 dots-in-SS
.SH Foo
.SS . and ..
\&. and .. are special files.
alx@debian:~/tmp$ groff -man -Tutf8 dot.man >/dev/null
alx@debian:~/tmp$ groff -man -Tps dot.man >/dev/null
alx@debian:~/tmp$ groff -man -Tpdf dot.man >/dev/null
troff:dot.man:3: warning: macro 'and' not defined (possibly missing
space after 'an')
Have a lovely night!
Alex
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