Hi Ingo,
> > This is current/amd64 on a PC.
> > It seems that if MANPATH is set (to something nonempty),
> > the settings in /etc/man.conf get ignored:
> >
> > $ cat /etc/man.conf
> > output paper a4
> >
> > $ man -Tps true | grep PageSize
> > %%BeginFeature: *PageSize Letter
> > <</PageSize [612 790]>>setpagedevice
> >
> > $ env | grep MAN
> > MANPATH=/home/hans/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/X11R6/man
> >
> > $ export MANPATH=
> > $ man -Tps true | grep Size
> > %%BeginFeature: *PageSize A4
> > <</PageSize [595 841]>>setpagedevice
>
> Thanks for reporting.
>
> This seemed like a trivial bug to me, so i fixed it right away in both
> OpenBSD and bsd.lv, see the commit appended below.
thank you for the quick fix. For completeness,
I just confirm it fixes PDF output as well:
$ man -Tpdf ls | grep Media
/MediaBox [0 0 595 841]
> It turned out to be less trivial than i thought, i ended up completely
> rewriting the manconf_parse() function. Yes, i am aware that other bug
> reports against mandoc are still pending, and i'm a bit behind, you just
> got lucky that this one *seemed* simple at first... "That is probably
> easy to do with a three-line diff..."
Point taken: always make sure the bug seems trivial
so that it gets up the list :-)
Jan
