On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 02:33:16AM -0400, Eric Sunshine wrote: > doc-diff invokes 'man' with the -l option to force "local" mode, > however, neither MacOS nor FreeBSD recognize this option. On those > platforms, if the argument to 'man' contains a slash, it is > automatically interpreted as a file specification, so a "local"-like > mode is not needed. And, it turns out, 'man' which does support -l > falls back to enabling -l automatically if it can't otherwise find a > manual entry corresponding to the argument. Since doc-diff always > passes an absolute path of the nroff source file to 'man', the -l > option kicks in anyhow, despite not being specified explicitly. > Therefore, make the invocation portable to the various platforms by > simply dropping -l. Neat. Today I learned. Confirmed that this works just fine without "-l" on my system (and that "./foo.1" is an easy alternative to "man -l" on other systems). -Peff
