doc-diff invokes 'man' with the -l option to force "local" mode,
however, neither MacOS nor FreeBSD recognize this option. On those
platforms, if the argument to 'man' contains a slash, it is
automatically interpreted as a file specification, so a "local"-like
mode is not needed. And, it turns out, 'man' which does support -l
falls back to enabling -l automatically if it can't otherwise find a
manual entry corresponding to the argument. Since doc-diff always
passes an absolute path of the nroff source file to 'man', the -l
option kicks in anyhow, despite not being specified explicitly.
Therefore, make the invocation portable to the various platforms by
simply dropping -l.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunsh...@sunshineco.com>
---
 Documentation/doc-diff | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/doc-diff b/Documentation/doc-diff
index f483fe427c..c2906eac5e 100755
--- a/Documentation/doc-diff
+++ b/Documentation/doc-diff
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ generate_render_makefile () {
                printf '%s: %s\n' "$dst" "$src"
                printf '\t@echo >&2 "  RENDER $(notdir $@)" && \\\n'
                printf '\tmkdir -p $(dir $@) && \\\n'
-               printf '\tMANWIDTH=80 man -l $< >$@+ && \\\n'
+               printf '\tMANWIDTH=80 man $< >$@+ && \\\n'
                printf '\tmv $@+ $@\n'
        done
 }
-- 
2.19.0.rc1.352.gb1634b371d

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