Re: bin/45980: Manual file indexing no longer supports compressed manual pages

[Matthias Scheler <tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/45980; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Matthias Scheler <tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost>
To: Jukka Ruohonen <jruohonen%iki.fi@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: bin/45980: Manual file indexing no longer supports compressed
 manual pages
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:10:03 +0000

 On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 01:45:02PM +0000, Jukka Ruohonen wrote:
 > From: Jukka Ruohonen <jruohonen%iki.fi@localhost>
 > To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
 > Cc: gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, 
 > tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost
 > Subject: Re: bin/45980: Manual file indexing no longer supports compressed 
 > manual pages
 > Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:41:17 +0200
 > 
 >  On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 12:15:05PM +0000, Matthias Scheler wrote:
 >  >  The problem isn't related to compressed manual pages. The new tool
 >  >  e.g. insists on having an ".Nd" section in each manual page.
 >  >  Without that section the file won't get indexed.
 >  >  
 >  >  makewhatis(8) support this kind of manual pages without problems.
 >  
 >  Seems like a very trivial thing to fix, and certainly not something to yearn
 >  for the old makewhatis(8) (and the associated incapable tools).
 
 I've looked at "makemandb" and I have to disagree unfortunately.
 It is basically only designed to parse well structured manual pages.
 "makewhatis" had the same problem a long time ago and I fixed it
 in the course of two years by seriously enhancing the parser.
 Somebody would have to port all that code to "makemandb".
 
        Kind regards
 
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 Matthias Scheler                                  http://zhadum.org.uk/