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commit 9044e0f13a2fc0483133afdb1bd0d1362d389265
Author: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robin...@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Sat Jun 21 12:00:00 2025 -0500
groff_man*(7): Fix inaccurately reported date.
[man]: Fix inaccurately reported revision date of groff_man(7) and
groff_man_style(7) man pages. Since they're generated by m4 from a
common `.in` file, our Perl `mdate` script was replacing the center
footer with, effectively, the build time of the m4-generated document
rather then the revision date of the maintained source file.
* tmac/groff_man.7.man.in: Replace `@MDATE@` with newly contrived
substitutum [dog Latin], `REVISION_DATE`. It works just like the
former, but has a new name to reflect the distinguishable process of
its replacement.
* tmac/tmac.am (tmac/groff_man.7.man, tmac/groff_man_style.7.man):
Make m4(1) write to a temporary file, then process the temporary file
with `mdate.pl` to replace the aforementioned subtitutum. As a side
effect, there is no longer an `@MDATE@` in the file for the ".man"
suffix rule in "Makefile.am" to affect.
---
ChangeLog | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
tmac/groff_man.7.man.in | 4 ++--
tmac/tmac.am | 2 ++
3 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index f40a5e654..47c61d6b3 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,23 @@
+2025-06-21 G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robin...@gmail.com>
+
+ [man]: Fix inaccurately reported revision date of groff_man(7)
+ and groff_man_style(7) man pages. Since they're generated by m4
+ from a common `.in` file, our Perl `mdate` script was replacing
+ the center footer with, effectively, the build time of the
+ m4-generated document rather then the revision date of the
+ maintained source file.
+
+ * tmac/groff_man.7.man.in: Replace `@MDATE@` with newly
+ contrived substitutum [dog Latin], `REVISION_DATE`. It works
+ just like the former, but has a new name to reflect the
+ distinguishable process of its replacement.
+ * tmac/tmac.am (tmac/groff_man.7.man)
+ (tmac/groff_man_style.7.man): Make m4(1) write to a temporary
+ file, then process the temporary file with `mdate.pl` to replace
+ the aforementioned subtitutum. As a side effect, there is no
+ longer an `@MDATE@` in the file for the ".man" suffix rule in
+ "Makefile.am" to affect.
+
2025-06-21 Deri James <d...@chuzzlewit.myzen.co.uk>
Remove unneccessary call to pdf parser.
diff --git a/tmac/groff_man.7.man.in b/tmac/groff_man.7.man.in
index e14e0910d..d6005db9c 100644
--- a/tmac/groff_man.7.man.in
+++ b/tmac/groff_man.7.man.in
@@ -40,10 +40,10 @@ divert`'dnl
'\" t
.\" This page is generated by m4 from tmac/groff_man.7.man.in.
_ifnotstyle()dnl
-.TH groff_man @MAN7EXT@ "@MDATE@" "groff @VERSION@"
+.TH groff_man @MAN7EXT@ "REVISION_DATE" "groff @VERSION@"
_endif()dnl
_ifstyle()dnl
-.TH groff_man_style @MAN7EXT@ "@MDATE@" "groff @VERSION@"
+.TH groff_man_style @MAN7EXT@ "@MDATE_IN@" "groff @VERSION@"
_endif()dnl
.SH Name
_ifnotstyle()dnl
diff --git a/tmac/tmac.am b/tmac/tmac.am
index 8e37e860e..e5d3da8b4 100644
--- a/tmac/tmac.am
+++ b/tmac/tmac.am
@@ -262,10 +262,12 @@ $(M4CHECK): tmac/groff_man.7.man.in
tmac/groff_man.7.man: tmac/groff_man.7.man.in $(M4CHECK)
$(AM_V_GEN)$(M4) -D_groff_man_not_style \
+ -DREVISION_DATE=`$(PERL) $(top_srcdir)/mdate.pl
$(top_srcdir)/tmac/groff_man.7.man.in` \
$(tmac_srcdir)/groff_man.7.man.in > $@
tmac/groff_man_style.7.man: tmac/groff_man.7.man.in $(M4CHECK)
$(AM_V_GEN)$(M4) -D_groff_man_style \
+ -DREVISION_DATE=`$(PERL) $(top_srcdir)/mdate.pl
$(top_srcdir)/tmac/groff_man.7.man.in` \
$(tmac_srcdir)/groff_man.7.man.in > $@
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