From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] doc-diff: fix non-portable 'man' invocation
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2018 15:49:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180831194927.GB5120@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180831063318.33373-2-sunshine@sunshineco.com>
On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 02:33:16AM -0400, Eric Sunshine wrote:
> doc-diff invokes 'man' with the -l option to force "local" mode,
> however, neither MacOS nor FreeBSD recognize this option. On those
> platforms, if the argument to 'man' contains a slash, it is
> automatically interpreted as a file specification, so a "local"-like
> mode is not needed. And, it turns out, 'man' which does support -l
> falls back to enabling -l automatically if it can't otherwise find a
> manual entry corresponding to the argument. Since doc-diff always
> passes an absolute path of the nroff source file to 'man', the -l
> option kicks in anyhow, despite not being specified explicitly.
> Therefore, make the invocation portable to the various platforms by
> simply dropping -l.
Neat. Today I learned.
Confirmed that this works just fine without "-l" on my system (and that
"./foo.1" is an easy alternative to "man -l" on other systems).
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-31 19:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-30 8:12 [PATCH] doc-diff: always use oids inside worktree Jeff King
2018-08-30 9:12 ` Eric Sunshine
2018-08-30 19:55 ` [PATCH] doc/Makefile: remove tmp-doc-diff on "make clean" Jeff King
2018-08-30 20:34 ` Eric Sunshine
2018-08-30 20:36 ` Eric Sunshine
2018-08-30 20:52 ` Jeff King
2018-08-31 6:33 ` [PATCH 0/3] doc-diff: add "clean" mode & fix portability problem Eric Sunshine
2018-08-31 6:33 ` [PATCH 1/3] doc-diff: fix non-portable 'man' invocation Eric Sunshine
2018-08-31 19:49 ` Jeff King [this message]
2018-08-31 6:33 ` [PATCH 2/3] doc-diff: add --clean mode to remove temporary working gunk Eric Sunshine
2018-08-31 20:01 ` Jeff King
2018-08-31 21:24 ` Eric Sunshine
2018-08-31 6:33 ` [PATCH 3/3] doc/Makefile: drop doc-diff worktree and temporary files on "make clean" Eric Sunshine
2018-08-31 20:07 ` Jeff King
2018-08-31 21:37 ` Eric Sunshine
2018-09-17 18:32 ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-09-17 19:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-09-17 19:42 ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-09-17 19:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-09-17 19:55 ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-09-18 17:38 ` Jeff King
2018-09-17 20:43 ` Eric Sunshine
2018-09-17 20:52 ` Eric Sunshine
2018-08-31 18:49 ` [PATCH 0/3] doc-diff: add "clean" mode & fix portability problem Junio C Hamano
2018-08-31 20:08 ` Jeff King
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