Re: bin/45980: Manual file indexing no longer supports compressed manual pages

[Matthias Scheler <tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/45980; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Matthias Scheler <tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost>
To: Abhinav Upadhyay <er.abhinav.upadhyay%gmail.com@localhost>
Cc: NetBSD GNATS <gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost>
Subject: Re: bin/45980: Manual file indexing no longer supports compressed
 manual pages
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:14:33 +0000

 On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 07:40:44PM +0530, Abhinav Upadhyay wrote:
 > Yes, currently makemandb is not able to index compressed man pages. I
 > believe it is possible to add the support for compressed man pages in
 > the tool, but I think a better solution would be to get the proper
 > support for compressed man pages in mandoc itself.
 
 Hmmm, maybe I missunderstood the problem. Would mparse_result() return
 a "struct man *" full of binary data instead of failing if you pass
 it a ".gz" file?
 
        Kind regards
 
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 Matthias Scheler                                  http://zhadum.org.uk/