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Message #62 received at 30785 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Pierre Neidhardt <mail <at> ambrevar.xyz>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com>, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr>,
 Christopher Baines <mail <at> cbaines.net>, 30785 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#30785: Man pages truncated, repeated
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2019 21:37:25 +0100

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> It would have the same effect as Marius’ commit
> 296551a2e9310d4a030ee49530e9367e73aaeecf, wouldn’t it?

I tested and it works! :)

> My understanding, at this point, is that we need to find out why
> ‘preconv’ segfaults, no?

I'm not completely sure but it seems that libpipeline breaks preconv for one of
those two reasons:
- Because it's a path (maybe the slashes create a problem?).
- Because it's not in the PATH.

Very weird indeed.  The libpipeline developers could probably tell us more.

-- 
Pierre Neidhardt
https://ambrevar.xyz/

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