Re: [PATCH] Makefile: provide check-groff-warnings target

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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
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