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bug#59631: 29.0.50; [PATCH] New check-man target to check man pages for
From: |
Stefan Kangas |
Subject: |
bug#59631: 29.0.50; [PATCH] New check-man target to check man pages for errors |
Date: |
Sat, 3 Dec 2022 06:20:50 -0800 |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> AFAICT, the pipeline is simple:
>
> soelim FILE | preconv -e UTF-8 | groff -mandoc -Z -wall -wmac -Tutf8 >
> /dev/null
My concern is that the command is more brittle in the face of changes,
and also all the extra "echo" stuff that man-db is doing (probably
because I don't understand what it's doing).
I'm thinking that we could provide the above in case man-db isn't
available. Is there any way to auto-detect that? If not, how about
putting this behind a flag?