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Re: [libunwind] Strange behaviour of latex2man


From: David Mosberger
Subject: Re: [libunwind] Strange behaviour of latex2man
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 12:02:04 -0800

>>>>> On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 17:27:12 +0100, address@hidden (Matthieu Delahaye) 
>>>>> said:

  Matthieu> lexgrog is an application reading man pages and extract
  Matthieu> NAME section to get for example:

  Matthieu> libunwind-ia64 -- IA-64-specific support in libunwind

  Matthieu> It uses the same algorithm as used for generating db used
  Matthieu> by whatis It is usually used for testing correctness of
  Matthieu> man pages.

  Matthieu> But lexgrog generate in our case:
  Matthieu> libunwind-ia64.man: parse failed

  Matthieu> Which means whatis won;t be usable.

nroff formats the page just fine, so this must be a bug in lexgrog.
However, for now I applied your patch as a workaround.

        --david


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