Re: [Groff] Installing groff 1.19 from CVS breaks man(1)

[Werner LEMBERG]

> Under Fedora Core 6, installing groff 1.19 from CVS totally breaks
> man(1).

:-)

> All manual pages display as blank.  This appears to be the result of
> a mismatch between what /etc/man.conf expects and the way groff-1.19
> behaves.

The behaviour of groff hasn't changed in last few years, except the
introduction of SGR escape sequences in grotty (which can be turned
off with various means).

>    (I had to link /usr/bin/tbl to /usr/bin/gtbl.)

Hmm.  Why that?

> A good question to begin with is probably "why does that --legacy 
> NROFF_OLD_CHARSET need to be there at all?"

I see this option the first time.  It seems the Fedora people have
cooked something up by theirselves, making it incompatible with a
vanilla groff installation.


    Werner