Hi all, Just thought I'd drop a note on the pending package updates I've assigned to myself. I have patches to the book for all of these now.
However, as expected by looking at ticket #2322, there's slight issues with Groff-1.20.1 and its interaction with Man-DB-2.5.3. I've put some screenshots up at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~matthew/test-results/, which show the various problems. The 'enable-mb-groff' directory shows what happens in various locales having (incorrectly) passed the --enable-mb-groff configure switch to Man-DB. I say "incorrectly" here, because in my build, I'm not applying a multibyte patch to Groff as upstream provide multibyte support in a different manner. Under these conditions, Russian man pages display correctly. There's a slight issue with hyphen characters that are added automatically by line-breaking rules in 'man', as can be seen in the en_GB.UTF-8 'preconv' image. This seems to be because the 'sed' that is applied in the Groff instructions, specifically to handle this issue, no longer makes any changes to the source of Groff-1.20.1 due to a change in the conventions used in fonts/devutf8/R.proto. I've not reported this upstream (bug-groff list) yet, but will do after I send this. Also, that same hyphen character gets completely dropped in the en_GB.ISO-8859-1 locale due to a bug in Man-DB (reported upstream). The 'default' directory shows what happens when the '--enable-mb-groff' configure switch is not passed to Man-DB's configure invocation. As you can see, the Russian man pages here are completely broken. I've reported this upstream as well, as it looks as if Man-DB's configure script should be taught that Groff-1.20.1 is multibye capable, even though it doesn't have the 'nippon' and 'ascii8' devices. I'd like to express my thanks here to Alexander Patrakov for assisting with the i18n issues this work raised, and for providing test cases for Man-DB. Although we worked off-list, completely unintentionally (it all spiralled from a trivial "what are your plans for this ticket" email from Alexander to me), hopefully this email has enough detail in it to let folks know where abouts we are. I'd like to think that I'll get a response back from the Man-DB maintainer over the course of next week, at which point I'll decide how to proceed with the rest of the package upgrades. Regards, Matt. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
