Re: Nroff error

[Larry Rosenman]

--On Tuesday, November 11, 2003 16:02:47 -0500 Forrest Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

LOL

Check this out:

bash-2.05b# gdb man bash

should be:

gdb man

run man bash

GNU gdb 4.18 (FreeBSD)
Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you
are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain
conditions.
Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for
details.
This GDB was configured as "i386-unknown-freebsd"...(no debugging symbols
found)...

/usr/local/etc/openldap/bash: No such file or directory.
(gdb)

and this:

bash-2.05b# manpath
/usr/share/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/share/perl/man:/usr/share/openssl/man:
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00503/man:/usr/X11R6/man

Makes absolutely no sense to me.

that just shows where it's looking for stuff.

LER

At 03:56 PM 11/11/2003, Larry Rosenman wrote:

One idea...

Have you tried truss(1)'ing the man command to see what files it's
looking  for?

truss -o /tmp/truss.out man xxx

?

--On Tuesday, November 11, 2003 15:45:11 -0500 Forrest Aldrich
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hi Larry,

I seem to have this file:

-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  5102 Nov  9 22:24
/usr/share/tmac/tty-char.tmac -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  1551 Nov  9
22:24 /usr/share/tmac/tty.tmac

This has been a problem for a long time - none of my manpages work at
all.   I've tried reinstalling (makeworld/installworld,e tc) to no
avail. Also, if I remove /usr/local/share/groff, I get more errors.

So I think something is just plain wrong.   I've tested my MANPATH and
looked at /etc/manpath.config, and don't see problems.

I'm getting to the point where I'm losing time by not having some
manpages available, etc.

Thanks,
Forrest

At 03:32 PM 11/11/2003, you wrote:

--On Tuesday, November 11, 2003 15:28:03 -0500 Forrest Aldrich
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Can someone explain what this error might be:

nroff -man nasm.1 > nasm.man
troff: fatal error: can't find macro file tty-char
*** Error code 1

Long-standing issue on the system I'm using -- it affects usage of
manpages (they don't work).  Can't figure it out...

The following file is probably missing (drop the /stable/ from the
path):

/stable/usr/share/tmac/tty-char.tmac

It can (probably) be copied from:

/stable/usr/src/contrib/groff/tmac/tty-char.tmac

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