Re: [PATCH 4/4] man/*.{1,1m,3x,5,7}: Soft-code ncurses version in `TH` call.

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sat, Mar 16, 2024 at 04:10:23PM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> At 2024-03-16T16:59:44-0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 15, 2024 at 11:49:29AM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > 
> > current groff (1.23.0) doesn't like the @'s in the .TH with this change.
> > older (1.22.4) doesn't complain.
> 
> Unfortunately I can't reproduce this (on my branch where this change
> came from, but I have nothing in it that I haven't already mailed).
> 
> $ ~/groff-stable/bin/nroff --version | head
> GNU nroff (groff) version 1.23.0
> $ sed -n '31p' man/tic.1m
> .TH @TIC@ 1M 2023-12-30 "ncurses @NCURSES_MAJOR@.@NCURSES_MINOR@" "User 
> commands"
> $ ~/groff-stable/bin/nroff -mandoc ./man/tic.1m >/dev/null 2>&1 | grep . || 
> echo no output
> no output
> 
> > troff:./tic.1m:31: warning: missing closing delimiter in output comparison 
> > operator (got a newline)
> > troff:./tic.1m:31: warning: missing closing delimiter in output comparison 
> > operator (got a newline)
> > troff:./tic.1m:31: warning: missing closing delimiter in output comparison 
> > operator (got a newline)
> > troff:./tic.1m:31: warning: missing closing delimiter in output comparison 
> > operator (got a newline)
> > 
> > line 31:
> > .TH @TIC@ 1M 2024-03-16 "ncurses @NCURSES_MAJOR@.@NCURSES_MINOR@" "User 
> > commands"
> 
> None of that is bad syntax.[1]  Please add the `-b` option to your nroff
> command and share the results.  There is an output comparison operator
> at work in the definition of `TH` macro, but I see nothing obviously
> wrong with handing it this input.

> For what it's worth, here's what I get for headers and footers from this
> input.
> 
> $ ~/groff-stable/bin/nroff -mandoc ./man/tic.1m | head -n 1
> @TIC@(1M)                        User commands                       @TIC@(1M)
> $ ~/groff-stable/bin/nroff -mandoc ./man/tic.1m | tail -n 1
> ncurses @NCURSES_MAJOR@.@NCURS... 2023‐12‐30                         @TIC@(1M)

see attached (I'm referring to the checks/warnings, not the normal operation)

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Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
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