As matthieu@ pointed out on tech@, man.conf(5) must be switched.
Now that groff doesn't even exist any more in base, it's high time.
Regarding base and new style ports (those now installing mandoc- or
groff-preformatted manuals), it makes no difference.
Regarding Xenocara and old style ports (those installing unformatted
manuals), it will not cope 100%, but certainly better than a program
that does not even exist any longer.
Admittedly, there are some problems in Xenocara:
schwa...@rhea $ cd /usr/X11R6/man/
schwa...@rhea $ mandoc -Tlint -Wfatal man*/* 2> /tmp/mandoc.probs
schwa...@rhea $ wc /tmp/mandoc.probs
897 4513 46585 /tmp/mandoc.probs
schwa...@rhea $ grep -c 'no document body' /tmp/mandoc.probs
823
These "pages" consist of a single line containing an .so macro.
They should probably be replaced by MLINKs.
schwa...@rhea $ grep -c 'man tbl parser:.*bad syntax' /tmp/mandoc.probs
69
In these cases, mandoc bugs still prevent rendering of some tables.
So, in the whole of the source-installed Xenocara manuals,
69 tables got lost.
Besides, the following pages trigger fatal mandoc errors:
XTestQueryExtension(3)
Xcomposite(3)
XpSelectInput(3)
glint(4)
rendition(4)
But i fear delaying the switch will not help Xenocara in any way.
OK?
Index: man.conf
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/etc/man.conf,v
retrieving revision 1.15
diff -u -p -r1.15 man.conf
--- man.conf 9 Apr 2010 19:07:30 -0000 1.15
+++ man.conf 18 Oct 2010 21:18:30 -0000
@@ -16,17 +16,15 @@ _subdir cat1 man1 cat8 man8 cat6 man6 c
_suffix .0
_build .0.Z /usr/bin/zcat %s
_build .0.gz /usr/bin/gzcat %s
-_build .[1-9n] /usr/bin/nroff -Tascii -man %s
-_build .[1-9n].Z /usr/bin/zcat %s | /usr/bin/nroff -Tascii -man
-_build .[1-9n].gz /usr/bin/gzcat %s | /usr/bin/nroff -Tascii -man
-_build .[1-9][a-z] /usr/bin/nroff -Tascii -man %s
-_build .[1-9][a-z].Z /usr/bin/zcat %s | /usr/bin/nroff -Tascii -man
-_build .[1-9][a-z].gz /usr/bin/gzcat %s | /usr/bin/nroff -Tascii -man
-_build .tbl /usr/bin/tbl %s | /usr/bin/nroff -Tascii -man
-_build .tbl.Z /usr/bin/zcat %s | /usr/bin/tbl |
/usr/bin/nroff -Tascii -man
-_build .tbl.gz /usr/bin/gzcat %s | /usr/bin/tbl |
/usr/bin/nroff -Tascii -man
-_build .me /usr/bin/nroff -Tascii -me %s 2>/dev/null | cat
-s
-_build .ms /usr/bin/nroff -Tascii -ms %s 2>/dev/null | cat
-s
+_build .[1-9n] /usr/bin/mandoc %s
+_build .[1-9n].Z /usr/bin/zcat %s | /usr/bin/mandoc
+_build .[1-9n].gz /usr/bin/gzcat %s | /usr/bin/mandoc
+_build .[1-9][a-z] /usr/bin/mandoc %s
+_build .[1-9][a-z].Z /usr/bin/zcat %s | /usr/bin/mandoc
+_build .[1-9][a-z].gz /usr/bin/gzcat %s | /usr/bin/mandoc
+_build .tbl /usr/bin/mandoc %s
+_build .tbl.Z /usr/bin/zcat %s | /usr/bin/mandoc
+_build .tbl.gz /usr/bin/gzcat %s | /usr/bin/mandoc
# Sections and their directories.
# All paths ending in '/' are the equivalent of entries specifying that
