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Re: [milter-greylist] Solaris man page: need feedback

2005-05-09 by Martin Paul

Hi,

> milter-greylist man pages can be viewed on Solaris by doing 
> groff -mdoc -Tascii milter-greylist.8

Unfortunately groff doesn't come with Solaris by default, so 
the modification you made to Makefile in 2.0b6 won't work
on a stock Solaris system. It would be better if you ship
the cat files in the milter-greylist distribution, and don't
try to generate them during installation.

"man -d" showed this command line to be used to format the
man pages under Linux, BTW:

  /usr/bin/zsoelim milter-greylist.8 | /usr/bin/tbl | 
  /usr/bin/nroff -mandocdb -Tutf8 > milter-greylist.cat8
  
As has been mentioned, under Solaris only the cat version of
the man page should be installed then. I can't think of
a better way than "uname" to decide on which file(s) should
be installed. Maybe running "nroff -mandocdb < /dev/null"
would be an option, it returns "nroff: Cannot find library -mandocdb"
under Solaris, which "nroff -man < /dev/null" comes up empty
(no error).

A bit messy, all of this. It still would be best to write 
the man pages in a way that the man command on all OS's
can format the man pages itself - I guess that would mean
to convert them so that "nroff -man" can format them. I'd
volunteer, but I have zero knowlegde about *roff macro 
packages.

mp.
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