Bug 221868 - Incorrect invocation option breaks CVS groff
Summary: Incorrect invocation option breaks CVS groff
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: man
Version: 6
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Ivana Varekova
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-01-08 16:54 UTC by Eric Raymond
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2007-01-09 09:59:56 UTC
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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.
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