Hi all,
Recently, I've noticed an odd-looking output from weekly(8):
Rebuilding whatis databases:
makewhatis: man7/cmake-properties.7: ERROR: No such file or directory
"Strange", I thought, especially since /usr/local/man/man7/cmake-properties.7
is "alive" and well:
$ ls -l /usr/local/man/man7/cmake-properties.7
-rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 202877 Dec 20 14:00
/usr/local/man/man7/cmake-properties.7
I've rebuilt the mandoc.db and got an output which was stranger still:
makewhatis: man7/cmake-properties.7: ERROR: No such file or directory
/usr/local/man//man7/cmake-properties.7: Adding to database
Huh!?
Time for 'mandoc -Tlint':
$ mandoc -Tlint /usr/local/man/man7/cmake-properties.7 | head
mandoc: /usr/local/man/man7/cmake-properties.7:1131:2: WARNING: .so is
fragile, better use ln(1): so libraries.
mandoc: /usr/local/man/man7/cmake-properties.7: ERROR: No such file or
directory
mandoc: /usr/local/man/man7/cmake-properties.7:1131:15: ERROR: .so
request failed: .so libraries.
[...]
OK, let's see what on that line:
$ sed -n 1131p /usr/local/man/man7/cmake-properties.7
.so libraries.
and including preceding line:
Set the Android property that specifies directories to search for the
.so libraries.
Right, so '.so' (unintentional pun) is treated as a macro here -
moving it to the line above, fixes the issue:
Set the Android property that specifies directories to search for the
.so
libraries.
Upstream uses reStructuredText but I hope this[0] does the trick.
[0] https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/merge_requests/2756
Anyway, thought this might be of interest.
Cheers,
Raf
