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* bug#39272: `man -H` doesn't use absolute path to groff
@ 2020-01-24 20:34 pkill9
  2020-11-15 22:48 ` Maxim Cournoyer
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: pkill9 @ 2020-01-24 20:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 39272

when running `man -H curl`, I get the following output:

```
man: command exited with status 255: (cd /tmp/hmanCnZGIK && /gnu/store/l9j6dsfs2i4spfkia492wnighplvhb1c-man-db-2.9.0/libexec/man-db/zsoelim) | (cd /tmp/hmanCnZGIK && /gnu/store/l9j6dsfs2i4spfkia492wnighplvhb1c-man-db-2.9.0/libexec/man-db/manconv -f UTF-8:ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8//IGNORE) | (cd /tmp/hmanCnZGIK && /gnu/store/5sd2yanrfv9pq8mvnf4c6pga11r6x7qh-groff-minimal-1.22.4/bin/preconv -e UTF-8) | (cd /tmp/hmanCnZGIK && /gnu/store/5sd2yanrfv9pq8mvnf4c6pga11r6x7qh-groff-minimal-1.22.4/bin/tbl) | (cd /tmp/hmanCnZGIK && groff -mandoc -Thtml)
```

When I go into a guix environment containing groff however, it works.
Looking at the command `man -H` tries to use, it needs an absolute path
to groff.

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* bug#39272: `man -H` doesn't use absolute path to groff
  2020-01-24 20:34 bug#39272: `man -H` doesn't use absolute path to groff pkill9
@ 2020-11-15 22:48 ` Maxim Cournoyer
  2020-11-17 16:09   ` zimoun
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Maxim Cournoyer @ 2020-11-15 22:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: pkill9; +Cc: 39272-done

Hello pkill9,

pkill9 <pkill9@runbox.com> writes:

> when running `man -H curl`, I get the following output:
>
> ```
> man: command exited with status 255: (cd /tmp/hmanCnZGIK &&
> /gnu/store/l9j6dsfs2i4spfkia492wnighplvhb1c-man-db-2.9.0/libexec/man-db/zsoelim)
> | (cd /tmp/hmanCnZGIK &&
> /gnu/store/l9j6dsfs2i4spfkia492wnighplvhb1c-man-db-2.9.0/libexec/man-db/manconv
> -f UTF-8:ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8//IGNORE) | (cd /tmp/hmanCnZGIK &&
> /gnu/store/5sd2yanrfv9pq8mvnf4c6pga11r6x7qh-groff-minimal-1.22.4/bin/preconv
> -e UTF-8) | (cd /tmp/hmanCnZGIK &&
> /gnu/store/5sd2yanrfv9pq8mvnf4c6pga11r6x7qh-groff-minimal-1.22.4/bin/tbl)
> | (cd /tmp/hmanCnZGIK && groff -mandoc -Thtml)
> ```
>
> When I go into a guix environment containing groff however, it works.
> Looking at the command `man -H` tries to use, it needs an absolute path
> to groff.

I looked into this but it turns out that our man-db package is carefully
crafted not to refer to the full groff package to reduce its closure
size by more than half.

I think you'll have to live with installing groff manually to get the
HTML feature, or alter the man-db definition to your particular needs.

If this issue comes back often, we could revisit this choice and use the
full groff, which would mean adding about 50 MiB to the closure of the
bare-bones.tmpl system.

Closing,

Thanks for the report!

Maxim




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* bug#39272: `man -H` doesn't use absolute path to groff
  2020-11-15 22:48 ` Maxim Cournoyer
@ 2020-11-17 16:09   ` zimoun
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: zimoun @ 2020-11-17 16:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Maxim Cournoyer, pkill9; +Cc: 39272-done

Hi Maxim,

On Sun, 15 Nov 2020 at 17:48, Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> wrote:

>> When I go into a guix environment containing groff however, it works.
>> Looking at the command `man -H` tries to use, it needs an absolute path
>> to groff.
>
> I looked into this but it turns out that our man-db package is carefully
> crafted not to refer to the full groff package to reduce its closure
> size by more than half.
>
> I think you'll have to live with installing groff manually to get the
> HTML feature, or alter the man-db definition to your particular needs.
>
> If this issue comes back often, we could revisit this choice and use the
> full groff, which would mean adding about 50 MiB to the closure of the
> bare-bones.tmpl system.

I do not know if it is related but #38838:

  <http://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/38838>


All the best,
simon




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