Bug 477700

Works for you on what?  I've got two x86-64 machines, one running F-10, one running Rawhide.  The problem still exists on both.  The F-10 machine has:

java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel-1.6.0.0-15.b14.fc10.x86_64

and the Rawhide machine has:

java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel-1.6.0.0-20.b14.fc11.x86_64

Do you see actual content in Table 1-1 when doing "man wsgen"?  It should contain a list of command-line options, but is completely empty when I look at it.  Are you using some other man page viewer besides /usr/bin/man?  Perhaps you have a cached version of the man page.  Try this:

rm -f /var/cache/man/cat1/wsgen* /var/cache/man/cat1/wsimport*

and then try "man wsgen" again.  Now do you see the problem?

you're right, i did have a cached version.

I can see the page, but once I exit I get this error:
$ man wsgen
/usr/bin/gtbl:<standard input>:67: `.' not last character on line
/usr/bin/gtbl:<standard input>:67: giving up on this table
/usr/bin/gtbl:<standard input>:621: `.' not last character on line
/usr/bin/gtbl:<standard input>:621: giving up on this table


reopening

I am not getting the error for wsimport

Hmmm.  I do see the error for wsimport on both F-10 and Rawhide.  Anyway, there's a "Table 1-1" in that man page.  Does it have any contents for you?  For me, it is empty.

Same for wsgen: the caption "Table 1-1" prints, but none of the table contents print.

you're right, i do not see the table either.

Created attachment 345517 [details]
Remove .TS and .TE macros

The man pages for jarsigner, javadoc, jstat, wsgen, and wsimport all contain missing tables. It looks like these man pages were generated by Sun's html2man tool from (proprietary?) html docs. This tool has a few issues: as far as I can tell, it generated the exact alignment data for groff to display the table, but then added .TS and .TE to mark them as tables. The man command runs the tables through gtbl to format the tables. gtbl chokes on the data inside the .TS and .TE tags which are normal groff macros instead of gtbl macros. A quick and dirty fix is to remove the .TS and .TE macros. This makes the tables appear but still produces formatting warnings.

The correct fix, IMHO, would be to generate correct man pages using FLOSS html docs - the jdk sources dont seem to contain these :(

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This bug is still present in F-12.  I haven't checked Rawhide.

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I no longer see the warnings (because of the change to man-db?), but the tables are still empty in those man pages on F-14.

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The tables are still empty in current Rawhide.

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