#2431: Incorrect text in Man-DB page
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Reporter: ch...@… | Owner: lfs-b...@…
Type: task | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: Book | Version: SVN
Severity: normal | Keywords:
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On the page for Man-DB, it says to apply a patch that will fix utf8
handling of col. However, it seems that the real issue is that, at that
point, col has not yet been installed. Without the patch, the testsuite
will fail when it attempts to run the nonexistent col program. The
MAN_KEEP_FORMATTING variable set by the patch fixes this by simply telling
the testsuite not to attempt to run col at all.
I guess the intent of the upstream patch *was* to deal with utf8, but in
the context of the LFS book, when col does not even exist when Man-DB is
being installed, it isn't really an accurate description.
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