Bug 221868

Summary:	Incorrect invocation option breaks CVS groff
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Eric Raymond <esr>
Component:	man	Assignee:	Ivana Varekova <varekova>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Ben Levenson <benl>
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Version:	6	CC:	varekova
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Description Eric Raymond 2007-01-08 16:54:35 UTC

Description of problem:
Installing groff from CVS on FC6 breaks man.
The problem is a bogus "--legacy NROFF_OLD_CHARSET" option in /etc/man.config.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
groff 1.19-pre development tree
man 1.6d

How reproducible:
Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Attempt to brose any manual page
  
Actual results:
Blank page.

Expected results:
Screenful of text

Additional info:
Changing /etc/man.config to declare

NROFF		/usr/bin/nroff -c -mandoc 2>/dev/null

fixes the problem.

Comment 1 Ivana Varekova 2007-01-09 09:59:56 UTC

Thank you for your bug report.
This problem is fixed in man-1.6e-2.fc7 and man-1.6d-2.fc6.