docs/112804: groff(1) command should be called to explicitly use "ps" as output
ighighi
ighighi at gmail.com
Sun May 20 07:30:05 UTC 2007
>Number: 112804
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: groff(1) command should be called to explicitly use "ps" as output
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sun May 20 07:30:03 GMT 2007
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: ighighi
>Release: 6.2-STABLE
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD orion 6.2-STABLE FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #1: Fri May 18 01:56:15 VET 2007 root at orion:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CUSTOM i386
>Description:
The following line in /usr/share/mk/doc.images.mk should contain "-Tps" to prevent groff(1) from using the GROFF_TYPESETTER environment variable
PIC2PS?= ${GROFF} -p -S -Wall -mtty-char -man
When set to something other than "ps" the build fails, so adding "-Tps" would
allow the user building the documentation have GROFF_TYPESETTER in ~/.profile
without interfering with the build. I usually have this variable set to "latin1"
or "ascii" so "man -t whatever" makes groff(1) use any output device I want.
IMO, It doesn't hurt to add a "-Tps" to the line above as it would make the
intended usage explicit.
>How-To-Repeat:
export GROFF_TYPESETTER=latin1
cd /usr/doc
make FORMATS="html html-single"
>Fix:
Attached patch.
Patch attached with submission follows:
--- share/mk/doc.images.mk.orig Fri Jul 23 14:58:56 2004
+++ share/mk/doc.images.mk Fri May 18 13:10:56 2007
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@
EPSTOPDF?= ${PREFIX}/bin/epstopdf
EPSTOPDFOPTS?= ${EPSTOPDFFLAGS}
#
-PIC2PS?= ${GROFF} -p -S -Wall -mtty-char -man
+PIC2PS?= ${GROFF} -Tps -p -S -Wall -mtty-char -man
#
PS2EPS?= ${PREFIX}/bin/gs
PS2EPSOPTS?= -q -dNOPAUSE -dSAFER -dDELAYSAFER \
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