On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > +# Define GNU_ROFF if you have GNU roff and you don't want to have pretty
> > +# apostrophe so that cut&pasting examples to the shell will work.
>
> This makes it sound as if groff is the only roff implementation that has
> this problem---iow, if we use non-GNU roff then the documentation comes
> out just fine. Is that the case?
Yes:
built without GNU_ROFF built with GNU_ROFF
viewed with non-GNU roff correct (') wrong (no output!)
viewed with GNU groff wrong (´) correct (')
In order to build a manpage that can be viewed correctly on both
platforms, the conditional logic should live in the manpage itself (as per
the bug comments I linked to and Thomas quoted from).
Anders
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