| Summary: | sys-apps/groff-1.20.1-r1 breaks man page formatting of top (from sys-process/procps-3.2.7) | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Horst Prote <prote> |
| Component: | [OLD] Core system | Assignee: | Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system> |
| Status: | RESOLVED WORKSFORME | ||
| Severity: | minor | CC: | bugs.gentoo.org, richard.adam, shepmaster, toralf |
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
Reassigning to base-system herd. *** Bug 278124 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** same here, also on man top , always reproducible on man top, never on man bash or others [ebuild R ] app-shells/bash-4.0_p37 USE="net nls -afs -bashlogger -examples -mem-scramble -plugins -vanilla" 0 kB [ebuild R ] sys-apps/groff-1.20.1-r1 USE="X -examples" LINGUAS="(-ja)" 0 kB seems related to : http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=266272 Seems this is fixed in sys-apps/groff-1.21 as I can't reproduce it anymore. |
Since I upgraded from groff-1.19.2-r3 to version 1.20.1-r1 the man page of top shows a broken bold "top": SYNOPSIS <> -hv | -bcHisS -d delay -n iterations -p pid [, pid ...] ... DESCRIPTION The .ie 0 . br program provides a dynamic real-time view of a running system. It can display ... encompassing every aspect of its operation. And while .ie 0 . br is referred to throughout this document, you are free to name the program any- Also a "man top" writes two errors to stderr: <standard input>:100: environment stack underflow <standard input>:110: environment stack underflow Oddly enough a "bzcat /usr/share/man/man1/top.1.bz2 | groff -mtty-char -Tlatin1 -mandoc" formats the man page in the same way but writes to stderr: <standard input>:97: environment stack underflow <standard input>:107: environment stack underflow I then played with a local copy of the bunzipped top.1 and found - the bold "top" is defined as string variable ME in the line ".ds mE \fBtop\fR" - it's used as "\*(ME" in lines 88, 97, 107 - if I rename it to MM or mE and view the man page through "groff -mtty-char -Tlatin1 -mandoc top.1 | less" it's correctly formatted. - if I delete the line ".ds mE \fBtop\fR" the man page is formatted as by "man top" only the line numbers in the "environment stack underflow" errors are decreased ny one: top.1:96: environment stack underflow top.1:106: environment stack underflow Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: