GNU bug report logs - #59631
29.0.50; [PATCH] New check-man target to check man pages for errors

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From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 59631 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#59631: 29.0.50; [PATCH] New check-man target to check man pages for errors
Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2022 06:20:50 -0800

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> AFAICT, the pipeline is simple:
>
>  soelim FILE | preconv -e UTF-8 | groff -mandoc -Z -wall -wmac -Tutf8 > /dev/null

My concern is that the command is more brittle in the face of changes,
and also all the extra "echo" stuff that man-db is doing (probably
because I don't understand what it's doing).

I'm thinking that we could provide the above in case man-db isn't
available.  Is there any way to auto-detect that?  If not, how about
putting this behind a flag?

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