At 2023-04-22T12:36:51-0400, Carlos wrote: > How am I supposed to give you an example?
For a guy who likes manually constructing pipelines, Ralph seems inordinately disinterested in the intermediate stages when troubleshooting. ;-) Unfortunately the PostScript output you've been sharing is not terribly helpful; please hold off for now. Your "nroff -man | cat -n" output is the most telling clue we have so far, in my opinion. > gdb nroff? Not likely--that's a shell script! > I can confirm that -mandoc or -man for that matter on Alpine Linux > along with groff 1.22 shoves the blank page right in the beginning It might be worth comparing the /etc/groff/man.local files in both your main distribution (which you haven't identified) and Alpine Linux. > If in doubt, set up a project, take your time, no one's rushing you, > and install Alpine stable and see for yourself :) I hear their diff command is a little anemic... > The only version that works without an extra blank page, not extra > really, since it shoves it up in the beginning, is > > GNU groff version 1.23.0.rc4.19-96b92 so far The groff_man(7) man page will tell you exactly where the man.local file is installed. View the man page and scroll down to the "Files" section. > which its compilation finally went through after installing netpbm > > But I'm not very keen on the latter, I've never met anyone who had a grievance with netpbm before. But it shouldn't matter; if you don't care to use groff's HTML output support, you don't need netpbm, and the build should not fail without it--but it _will_ warn you (upon configuration) that HTML support will be absent. [partial build log snipped] I saw nothing remarkable or erroneous in that build log. Regards, Branden
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