DJ Lucas wrote: > All the recently mentioned changes and updates have been made except for > the testsuite fixes that Robert has been working on as I haven't had the > time to do manual builds. Of note: GCC-4.3.2, GlibC-2.8-20080905, LSB > bootscripts, initd-tools introduced, man instead of mandb and added > groff-utf8 package (thanks Ken). Man is probably still a little broken
Yes, it is. Please read the man-i18n.txt hint and pass +lang none to man in order to get readable error messages. And, groff-1.19.2 doesn't have the --enable-multibyte configure switch. And in fact I would strongly prefer a 8-line patch to Man to ignore non-English manual pages completely (instead of unconfigured groff-utf8 and hard-coded special-casing Japanese in Man-1.6f in a way that works only with Debian-patched Groff), as it saves the editors from all the encoding validation work. This is rather trivial, as it involves only removing stuff from the add_to_mandirlist() function (because of the check in is_lang_page(), this also disables the Japanese special-case logic that doesn't make sense with any modern groff). Remember: an English message (i.e, error message or manpage) is infinitely better than an unreadable one. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
