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Man pages truncated, repeated

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Message #36 received at 30785 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com>
To: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr>, 30785 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#30785: Man pages truncated, repeated
Date: Mon, 07 May 2018 00:06:47 +0200

reopen 30785

Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com> writes:

> Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com> writes:
>
>> Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr> writes:
>>>
>>>> Guix,
>>>>
>>>> Perhaps he's just getting old, but our man has a tendency to forget 
>>>> where he was, start over from the beginning, and repeat himself several 
>>>> times:
>>>>
>>>>    $ guix package -i knot rofi
>>>>    $ man 5 knot.conf | grep -E '^(NAME|DESCRIPTION)'
>>>>    NAME
>>>>    DESCRIPTION
>>>>    NAME
>>>>    DESCRIPTION
>>>>    NAME
>>>>    DESCRIPTION
>>>>    NAME
>>>>    DESCRIPTION
>>>>    NAME
>>>>    $
>>>
>>> One thing rofi.1 and knot.conf.5 have in common is that they are both
>>> unicode.  Whereas working pages are ASCII.
>>
>> This ultimately turned out to be due to man-db not finding "preconv".
>>
>> The attached patches fixes it.
>
> I pushed the fix as 296551a2e9310d4a030ee49530e9367e73aaeecf.

This patch caused `man` to segfault when invoked outside `guix
environment`(!) so I reverted it for now.

To be continued...

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