Re: makemandb errors from pkgsrc

[Hisashi T Fujinaka <htodd%twofifty.com@localhost>]

On Mon, 5 Mar 2012, Iain Hibbert wrote:

> On Mon, 5 Mar 2012, Dave Huang wrote:
>
> > Hmm, I just upgraded one of my machines to -current, and am still seeing this:
> >
> > Building temporary file cache
> > makemandb: /usr/pkg/man/man1/erb19.1: Parse failure
> > makemandb: Error in indexing /usr/pkg/man/man1/erb19.1
> > makemandb: /usr/pkg/man/man1/irb19.1: Parse failure
> > makemandb: Error in indexing /usr/pkg/man/man1/irb19.1
> > makemandb: /usr/pkg/man/man1/ri19.1: Parse failure
> > makemandb: Error in indexing /usr/pkg/man/man1/ri19.1
> > makemandb: /usr/pkg/man/man1/ruby19.1: Parse failure
> > makemandb: Error in indexing /usr/pkg/man/man1/ruby19.1
>
> Essentially, the manpage has markup errors which makemandb complains about
> rather than ignore silently. You may find that mandoc also complains about
> them but since that is during package creation (and only if catpages are
> installed) you won't have noticed (try "mandoc -Tlint" on them)
>
> I think Joerg fixed a lot of these in pkgsrc directly, and updating your
> packages should cause the errors to go away. If not, please file bug
> reports with the authors of the manpages :)

Actually Joerg wanted one big pr for all of them. Maybe that's changed.

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