Thread (1 message) 1 message, 1 author, 2016-08-08

Re: How to find bugs in man pages?

From: Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) <hidden>
Date: 2016-08-08 19:38:57

Possibly related (same subject, not in this thread)

Hi Mike,

On 21 June 2016 at 08:45, Mike Frysinger [off-list ref] wrote:
On 19 Jun 2016 16:46, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote:
quoted
I'm using: groff -z -b -wall manpage.x
seems like something we could add to `make check`
What's the advantage over the existing "man --warnings" check in the
"check-groff-warnings" target?

I see that the groff check above throws some warnings on pages that
aren't shown by "man --warnings":

==> "warning: invalid input character code" for Unicode input characters
==> "warning: indent cannot be negative" where I use ".in -4" in my
    feature test macro descriptions

But, I'm not sure that either of those warnings is helpful. Neither
seems indicative of a real problem, but maybe I misunderstand
something.

Cheers,

Michael

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