https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=274343
Bug ID: 274343
Summary: man(1) fails to render manpages that work correctly
both with gnroff and mdocml
Product: Base System
Version: 13.2-RELEASE
Hardware: Any
OS: Any
Status: New
Severity: Affects Some People
Priority: ---
Component: bin
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Hi again,
still the ports/shells/mksh upstream with bugreports directed my way by my
users.
The user is on 13.2-RELEASE and reports that the mksh(1) manpage does not
display correctly:
$ man mksh | head -5
is a command interpreter intended for both interactive and shell
script use. Its command language is a superset of the shell lan-
guage and largely compatible to the original Korn shell. At
times, this manual page may give scripting advice; while it some-
However, invoking not only GNU groff directly (I told him to use “nroff -mdoc
-c mksh.1 | less”) works, but it also works if he invokes mdocml directly:
$ mandoc mksh.1 | head -10
MKSH(1) FreeBSD General Commands Manual MKSH(1)
NAME
mksh, sh – MirBSD Korn shell
SYNOPSIS
mksh [-+abCefhiklmnprUuvXx] [-T [!]tty | -] [-+o option] [-c string |
-s | file [argument ...]]
builtin-name [argument ...]
[…]
I *was* suspecting the mdocml version at first because older mdocml releases
failed to render manpages with *roff commands/macros in them at all, but that
has been fixed at some point, and apparently, he’s carrying a version that
does.
At this point, and without access to a FreeBSD system myself, my triage ends
and I have to defer to whomever maintains the man/groff/mdocml subsystems at
your site.
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