bug#39272: closed (`man -H` doesn't use absolute path to groff)

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> `man -H` doesn't use absolute path to groff
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> Fri, 24 Jan 2020 20:34:35 +0000
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> when running `man -H curl`, I get the following output:
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> ```
> man: command exited with status 255: (cd /tmp/hmanCnZGIK && 
> /gnu/store/l9j6dsfs2i4spfkia492wnighplvhb1c-man-db-2.9.0/libexec/man-db/zsoelim)
>  | (cd /tmp/hmanCnZGIK && 
> /gnu/store/l9j6dsfs2i4spfkia492wnighplvhb1c-man-db-2.9.0/libexec/man-db/manconv 
> -f UTF-8:ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8//IGNORE) | (cd /tmp/hmanCnZGIK && 
> /gnu/store/5sd2yanrfv9pq8mvnf4c6pga11r6x7qh-groff-minimal-1.22.4/bin/preconv -e 
> UTF-8) | (cd /tmp/hmanCnZGIK && 
> /gnu/store/5sd2yanrfv9pq8mvnf4c6pga11r6x7qh-groff-minimal-1.22.4/bin/tbl) | (cd 
> /tmp/hmanCnZGIK && groff -mandoc -Thtml)
> ```
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> When I go into a guix environment containing groff however, it works.
> Looking at the command `man -H` tries to use, it needs an absolute path
> to groff.
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> Hello pkill9,
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> pkill9 <pkill9@runbox.com> writes:
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> > when running `man -H curl`, I get the following output:
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> > ```
> > man: command exited with status 255: (cd /tmp/hmanCnZGIK &&
> > /gnu/store/l9j6dsfs2i4spfkia492wnighplvhb1c-man-db-2.9.0/libexec/man-db/zsoelim)
> > | (cd /tmp/hmanCnZGIK &&
> > /gnu/store/l9j6dsfs2i4spfkia492wnighplvhb1c-man-db-2.9.0/libexec/man-db/manconv
> > -f UTF-8:ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8//IGNORE) | (cd /tmp/hmanCnZGIK &&
> > /gnu/store/5sd2yanrfv9pq8mvnf4c6pga11r6x7qh-groff-minimal-1.22.4/bin/preconv
> > -e UTF-8) | (cd /tmp/hmanCnZGIK &&
> > /gnu/store/5sd2yanrfv9pq8mvnf4c6pga11r6x7qh-groff-minimal-1.22.4/bin/tbl)
> > | (cd /tmp/hmanCnZGIK && groff -mandoc -Thtml)
> > ```
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> > When I go into a guix environment containing groff however, it works.
> > Looking at the command `man -H` tries to use, it needs an absolute path
> > to groff.
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> I looked into this but it turns out that our man-db package is carefully
> crafted not to refer to the full groff package to reduce its closure
> size by more than half.
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> I think you'll have to live with installing groff manually to get the
> HTML feature, or alter the man-db definition to your particular needs.
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> If this issue comes back often, we could revisit this choice and use the
> full groff, which would mean adding about 50 MiB to the closure of the
> bare-bones.tmpl system.
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> Closing,
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> Thanks for the report!
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> Maxim
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