Subject: Re: man pages w/o mandoc
To: None <tech-pkg@NetBSD.org>
From: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 12/10/2003 15:17:06
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, grant beattie wrote:

> > 	I noticed a few packages have NROFF forced to "nroff -man" if building
> > on SunOS since the -mandoc macros don't exist there, but that doesn't create
> > readable man pages.  Is anyone working on fixing that?  Has anyone looked
> > at what needs to be done to get that working?
>
> pkgtools/pkglint/Makefile has a comment that we should provide a
> 'mandoc' package for exactly this reason.. any takers? ;-)

Does SunOS and others use same groff as nroff and so mandoc macros are
compatible?

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://www.reedmedia.net/