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Re: groff 1.19.1 complains when formatting its own man pages
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: groff 1.19.1 complains when formatting its own man pages |
Date: |
Sun, 30 May 2004 20:13:30 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) |
Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> writes:
> If possible, please investigate further.
I looked into it some more by using "gdb" and "truss" (it would be
nice if the original diagnostic had been clearer, but I'm not enough
of a groff expert to implement that) and discovered that the problem
is in the following line in the definition of the }S macro in the
Solaris /usr/share/lib/tmac/an:
.if "\\$1"2" .if !"\\$5"" .ds ]F\^
I suspect groff is complaining about the lack of a space between the
]F and the \^. Such a complaint would normally be correct for groff
input, but here groff is reading from an old-troff macro defined by
the system, so it shouldn't complain.
The same problem occurs in both Solaris 2.5.1 and Solaris 9 as well.