>Number:         1062
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       makewhatis fails to find MAN format files
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    bin-bug-people (Utility Bug People)
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Thu May 18 17:20:02 1995
>Originator:     Robert Dobbs
>Organization:
Resort.com
>Release:        # $Header: /b/source/CVS/src/libexec/makewhatis/makewhatis.sh,v 1.4 1994/03/19 08:09:16 cgd Exp $
>Environment:
System: NetBSD gabriella.resort.com 1.0A NetBSD 1.0A (RESORT3) #2: Fri Mar 17 13:46:12 PST 1995 banshee@ns.cooltech.com:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/RESORT3 i386


>Description:
	Many programs install man files that are in man nroff format.  These
	man files are named foo.1, foo.5, foo.8, etc.  makewhatis only looks
	for foo.0 and compressed versions.
>How-To-Repeat:
	Install any man file in /usr/share/man/manX/file.X  Run makewhatis
	and note that they are not in the whatis.db file.
>Fix:
	A fix requires a modification to /usr/libexec/makewhatis and a new
	/usr/share/man/makewhatis.sed to deal with nroff man type files.

	I hacked up a new makewhatis-man.sed and added to the makewhatis
	script for 1..8.
# Get Man Files
find $MANDIR -type f -name '*.1' -print | while read file
do
        sed -n -f /usr/share/man/makewhatis-man.sed $file;
done > /tmp/whatis$$

	Here is my hack of the std makewhatis.sed to deal with man pages.
	(I don't follow sed really well, so parts may be useless, but when
	I ran this on /usr/local/man it produced correct results.)

==BEGIN==

#!/usr/bin/sed -nf
#

# Look for the manual page header .TH name number[ date]
/^.TH [a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9\._+\-]* \([a-zA-Z0-9\._+\-]*\).*/ {
        s;^.TH [a-zA-Z0-9\._+\-]* \([a-zA-Z0-9\._+\-]*\).*;\1;
        # add a trailing space following the pattern space
        s;[a-zA-Z0-9\._+\-]*;& ;
        # save the manual number
        h
        d
}

# look for the program name
/^.SH NAME/!d

:name
        s;.*;;
        N
        s;\n;;
        # Convert "foo /- does bar" to "foo - does bar"
        s;\\-;-;
        # some twits underline the command name
        s;;;g
        /^[^a-zA-Z]/b print
        H
        b name

:print
        x
        s;\n;;g
        /-/!d
        s;;;g
        s;\([a-z][A-z]\)-[       ][      ]*;\1;
        s;\([a-zA-Z0-9,\._+\-]\)[        ][      ]*;\1 ;g
        s;[^a-zA-Z0-9\._+\-]*\([a-zA-Z0-9\._+\-]*\)[^a-zA-Z0-9\._+\-]*\(.*\) - \(.*\);\2 (\1) - \3;
        p
        q

==END==
>Audit-Trail:
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