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From: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2014 16:19:57 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] If we have man-db, don't try and emulate man's pipeline
Just let man itself do the formatting / zsoelim / ... dance.
Debian bug#764792 <https://bugs.debian.org/764792>
Signed-off-by: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
---
xman/configure.ac | 5 +++++
xman/misc.c | 8 ++++++++
2 files changed, 13 insertions(+)
diff --git a/xman/configure.ac b/xman/configure.ac
index 9a80cbb..8bb44f2 100644
--- a/xman/configure.ac
+++ b/xman/configure.ac
@@ -44,6 +44,11 @@ if test "x$GROFF" = "xfound" ; then
AC_DEFINE([HAS_GROFF], 1, [Define to 1 if you have the groff package.])
fi
+AC_CHECK_PROG([MANDB], [mandb], [yes], [no])
+if test x"$MANDB" = xyes; then
+ AC_DEFINE([HAVE_MANDB], 1, [Define if the man implementation is man-db])
+fi
+
AC_CHECK_FUNCS([mkstemp])
AC_ARG_WITH(helpdir,
diff --git a/xman/misc.c b/xman/misc.c
index 06891cd..da8744a 100644
--- a/xman/misc.c
+++ b/xman/misc.c
@@ -661,6 +661,13 @@ static Boolean
ConstructCommand(char *cmdbuf, const char *path,
const char *filename, const char *tempfile)
{
+#ifdef HAVE_MANDB
+ int used = snprintf(cmdbuf, BUFSIZ, "man -l %s > %s 2>/dev/null",
+ filename, tempfile);
+ if (used >= BUFSIZ - 1)
+ return FALSE;
+ return TRUE;
+#else
/* The original code did the following to produce a command line:
* sprintf(cmdbuf,"cd %s ; %s %s %s > %s %s", path, TBL,
* filename, FORMAT, man_globals->tempfile, "2> /dev/null");
@@ -783,6 +790,7 @@ ConstructCommand(char *cmdbuf, const char *path,
return (FALSE);
return (TRUE);
+#endif /* man-db */
}
#endif /* HANDLE_ROFFSEQ */
--
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