Thanks Simon. That's a useful addition. I tweaked very slightly, so that the loop ignores link files and thus runs somewhat faster. On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 9:15 PM, Simon Paillard <spaillard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > --- > Makefile | 11 +++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile > index f5229c5..a4713ee 100644 > --- a/Makefile > +++ b/Makefile > @@ -55,5 +55,16 @@ install: > install -m 644 "$$i"/* $(DESTDIR)$(MANDIR)/"$$i" || exit $$?; \ > done; \ > > +# Check if groff reports warnings (may be words of sentances not displayed) > +# from http://lintian.debian.org/tags/manpage-has-errors-from-man.html > +GROFF_LOG := $(shell mktemp /tmp/manpages-checksXXXX) > +check-groff-warnings: > + for i in man?/*.*; \ > + do \ > + LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 MANWIDTH=80 man --warnings -E UTF-8 -l $$i > /dev/null 2>$(GROFF_LOG); \ > + [ -s $(GROFF_LOG) ] && ( echo "$$i: " ; cat $(GROFF_LOG) ; echo "" ); \ > + rm $(GROFF_LOG) 2>/dev/null; \ > + done > + > # someone might also want to look at /var/catman/cat2 or so ... > # a problem is that the location of cat pages varies a lot > -- > 1.7.10.4 > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html