On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 08:16:15AM +0100, Alexander Stein wrote: > I tried to use git ptx-patches fromwithin a package and noticed it doesn't > work. > I could track down the problem to this command (from scripts/git-ptx-patches): > > man git-format-patch | grep -q -e --notes > > Executing this command manually results in this error message: > > Error executing formatting or display command. > > System command (cd "/usr/share/man" && (echo ".pl 11i"; /bin/bzip2 -c -d > > '/usr/share/man/man1/git-format-patch.1.bz2') | /usr/bin/gtbl | > > /usr/bin/nroff -mandoc | less) exited with status 141. > > No manual entry for git-format-patch > > Interestingly executing > > (cd "/usr/share/man" && (echo ".pl 11i"; /bin/bzip2 -c -d > > '/usr/share/man/man1/git-format-patch.1.bz2') | /usr/bin/gtbl | > > /usr/bin/nroff -mandoc | less) | grep -q -e --notes > works as expected. I have no idea what's wrong here.
Maybe this is caused by some aliases or interactive/non-ineractive magic. Does it help to replace "man git-format-patch" with "git format-patch --help" or "man -P cat git-format-patch"? Michael -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | -- ptxdist mailing list [email protected]
