Re: bin/46642: insufficient diagnostics from makemandb(8)

[Abhinav Upadhyay <er.abhinav.upadhyay%gmail.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/46642; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Abhinav Upadhyay <er.abhinav.upadhyay%gmail.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: bin/46642: insufficient diagnostics from makemandb(8)
Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2012 11:09:50 +0530

 On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 3:45 AM,  <lloyd%must-have-coffee.gen.nz@localhost> 
wrote:
 >>Number:         46642
 >>Category:       bin
 >>Synopsis:       When makemandb has an error, it doesn't say what the error 
 >>is.
 >>Confidential:   no
 >>Severity:       serious
 >>Priority:       medium
 >>Responsible:    bin-bug-people
 >>State:          open
 >>Class:          sw-bug
 >>Submitter-Id:   net
 >>Arrival-Date:   Sat Jun 30 22:15:00 +0000 2012
 >>Originator:     Lloyd Parkes
 >>Release:        NetBSD 6.0_BETA2
 >>Organization:
 > Must Have Coffee
 >>Environment:
 > System: NetBSD thallid.must-have-coffee.gen.nz 6.0_BETA2 NetBSD 6.0_BETA2 
 > (XEN3PAE_DOMU) #0: Mon Jun 18 04:48:20 NZST 2012 
 > lloyd@bob:/vol/scratch/build6/obj.i386/sys/arch/i386/compile/XEN3PAE_DOMU 
 > i386
 > Architecture: i386
 > Machine: i386
 >>Description:
 >
 > My daily output email message from cron contains the following text:
 >         Updating man page index:
 >         makemandb: Error in indexing /usr/X11R7/man/man3/Xv.3
 >         makemandb: Error in indexing 
 > /usr/X11R7/man/man3/XvSelectVideoNotify.3
 >         makemandb: Error in indexing /usr/X11R7/man/man3/XvFreeAdaptorInfo.3
 >         makemandb: Error in indexing /usr/X11R7/man/man3/XvFreeEncodingInfo.3
 >         ...
 >
 
 I don't see those errors on my system.
 
 > Unfortunately makemandb won't tell me what is wrong, so it is not possible
 > to fix the problem.
 
 Sorry, I think you are right, makemandb should give more information
 in case of errors. I will send a patch to fix this. But _generally_
 the problem is with the NAME section of the man page. For example if
 there is an .Nd macro missing, the Name missing or something like
 that.
 
 Thanks
 Abhinav