This is just to confirm that using man -M for pre-formatted "cat"
manuals now works as expected in later snapshots. Thanks!
On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 01:29:14PM +0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
>
> Andreas Kusalananda Kahari wrote on Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 11:00:12AM +0100:
>
> > $ man -M /usr/local/share/doc/posix/man ls
> > assertion "tag_files->tfs == NULL" failed:
> > file "/usr/src/usr.bin/mandoc/main.c", line 1254, function "spawn_pager"
>
> Ouch.
> Fixed with the following commit.
>
> > It's not that I'm actually using the POSIX manuals very often (they are
> > quite out of date),
>
> How so? 2008 was the latest release. After that, there were only
> Technical Corrigenda, which usually change very little in how
> commands and functions are supposed to work, if anything at all.
>
> > but since man -M started failing for them I thought
> > I'd mention it.
>
> Absolutely.
> Sorry for the oversight, and thanks for pointing it out.
>
> Yours,
> Ingo
>
>
> Log Message:
> -----------
> The tag file always needs to be closed before starting the pager,
> even when no output formatter was allocated because all pages
> shown were preformatted. Regression in previous reported
> by <Andreas dot Kahari at abc dot se> on bugs@.
>
> Modified Files:
> --------------
> mandoc:
> main.c
>
> Revision Data
> -------------
> Index: main.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /home/cvs/mandoc/mandoc/main.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.345
> retrieving revision 1.346
> diff -Lmain.c -Lmain.c -u -p -r1.345 -r1.346
> --- main.c
> +++ main.c
> @@ -609,6 +609,8 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
> (void)fchdir(startdir);
> close(startdir);
> }
> + if (outst.outtype <= OUTT_UTF8)
> + term_tag_finish();
> if (outst.outdata != NULL) {
> switch (outst.outtype) {
> case OUTT_HTML:
> @@ -617,7 +619,6 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
> case OUTT_UTF8:
> case OUTT_LOCALE:
> case OUTT_ASCII:
> - term_tag_finish();
> ascii_free(outst.outdata);
> break;
> case OUTT_PDF:
--
Andreas (Kusalananda) Kähäri
SciLifeLab, NBIS, ICM
Uppsala University, Sweden
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