On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 08:16:51AM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > man-db uses a classical troff pipeline rather than using groff > > directly, so this is not possible. It also has its own soelim > > implementation, created in order to be able to handle compressed > > files. I'm not sure what to do about this. The suggestion I saw of > > having a hardlink from soelim to preconv seems good; then it would > > be possible for man to detect whether this feature is present in > > groff without the need for configure switches. > > I see. Well, `preconv -e ...' will be replaced with `soelim -e ...', > so this isn't a real problem.
OK. I think a link will still be needed, because simply checking whether preconv exists on $PATH is a lot easier for man to do than trying to check whether soelim accepts the -e option. I hope that will be something that the groff build process does by default. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Groff mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff
