Re: `make -R check` fails due to futex_waitv.2 and console_codes.4 being too wide

[Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>]

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Hi Hugo,

> Date: 2026-10-17 21:19:22+0200
> From: Hugo Buddelmeijer <hugo@buddelmeijer.nl>
>
> Hi Alejandro,
> 
> Running `make -R check` fails because the text in futex_waitv.2 and
> console_codes.4 is too wide.
> 
> I noticed this when trying to enable the test phase when updating the
> man-pages package in Guix; see https://codeberg.org/guix/guix/pulls/11893

Thanks a lot for the report.  I'm very interested in having make check
pass cleanly.

> That Guix pull request contains a patch to fix the man-pages so `make check`
> passes; said patch is attached.

Thanks!

> 
> Maybe you could device a better patch though, in particular for
> console_codes.  The affected table is much narrower than similar tables, so
> some lines that have to be truncated, would easily fit in one of the other
> tables.  But I couldn't easily figure out what determines the column widths,
> so I didn't fix that.

I think Branden might be better at that; I've added him to CC.

> Also, the Changelog for 6.04 contains some instructions to touch certain
> files to ensure the test suite passes.  I did not attempt to use that
> workaround.

Ok.

> Thanks for maintaining these man pages, they contain such a wealth of
> information.

Thanks!  :-)

> No need to credit me in case you fix these minor things.

I will, anyway.  ;)

> 
> Hugo


Have a lovely day!
Alex

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