GNU bug report logs - #77944
31.0.50; M-x man on macOS fails with error

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2025 16:29:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 31.0.50

Fixed in version 31.1

Done: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Howard Melman <hmelman <at> gmail.com>
To: shipmints <at> gmail.com
Cc: pkryger <at> gmail.com, 77944 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, eliz <at> gnu.org, michael.albinus <at> gmx.de, david <at> porkrind.org
Subject: bug#77944: 31.0.50; M-x man on macOS fails with error
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2025 15:40:14 -0400

Stéphane Marks <shipmints <at> gmail.com> writes:

> On Mon, Jun 16, 2025 at 5:18 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:
>
>  Can someone please provide a comprehensive answer to
>  this: does "M-x man" always fail on all supported
>  versions of macOS?  If not, which versions are affected?
>
> Running `man` Emacs 30.1 on macOS 12.7.6 /usr/bin/sed
> works fine for me.  I verified that (executable-find
> "sed") finds /usr/bin/sed and that I do not have GNU sed
> installed.  FYI, my (getenv "MANPATH") is nil, so it's
> system defaults, which reminds me that I should add
> /usr/local/share/man, but that's secondary.

It always fails for me on macOS 15.5 (on apple silicon)
unless I have GNU sed installed.

-- 

Howard
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