[bug #63924] man wrapper for system package infinitely recurses

[G. Branden Robinson]

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #63924 (project groff):

Reverting the change clears that right up...


$ gnroff -t -man /usr/share/man/man1/true.1 2>&1 >/dev/null | sort | uniq -c
   1 gtroff:/usr/share/lib/tmac/an:505: error: cannot load font 'S' for
emboldening
   1 gtroff:/usr/share/man/man1/true.1:20: warning: cannot select font 'CW'
   1 /usr/share/man/man1/true.1:41: warning: table wider than line length
minus indentation
$ gnroff -t -man -Tascii /usr/share/man/man1/true.1 | sed 'N;/^\n$/!P;D'
gtroff:/usr/share/lib/tmac/an:505: error: cannot load font 'S' for
emboldening
gtroff:/usr/share/man/man1/true.1:20: warning: cannot select font 'CW'
/usr/share/man/man1/true.1:41: warning: table wider than line length minus
indentation

User Commands                                             true(1)

NAME
     true, false - provide truth values

SYNOPSIS
     true

     false

DESCRIPTION
     The true utility does nothing, successfully. The false util-
     ity does nothing, unsuccessfully. They are typically used in
     a shell script sh as:

     while true
     do
                 command
     done

     which executes command forever.

EXIT STATUS
     true has exit status  0.

     false always will exit with a non-zero value.

ATTRIBUTES
     See  attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attrib-
     utes:

     +------------------------------+-----------------------------+
     |       ATTRIBUTE TYPE         |      ATTRIBUTE VALUE        |
     +------------------------------+-----------------------------+
     | Availability                 |SUNWcsu                      |
     +------------------------------+-----------------------------+
     | Interface Stability          |Standard                     |
     +------------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO
     sh(1), attributes(5), standards(5)

SunOS 5.10           Last change: 1 Feb 1995                    1


And it works on mdoc(7) documents.


$ cat thing.mdoc 
.Dd 2023-03-14
.Dt foo 1
.Os GNU
.Sh Name
.Nm foo
.Nd frobinicate a bar
.Sh Description
Twas brillig all the way down.
$ gnroff -man -Tascii ./thing.mdoc 
gtroff:/usr/share/lib/tmac/an:505: error: cannot load font 'S' for
emboldening
foo(1)                      General Commands Manual                    
foo(1)

Name
       foo -- frobinicate a bar

Description
       Twas brillig all the way down.

GNU                               2023-03-14                           
foo(1)




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