On Fri, 24 Mar 2017 15:40:19 +0100 Michael Kerrisk wrote: > I've applied this. However, could you say more about the > problem it fixes? (I did not encounter or get any reports of > problems before, and at least for me, man(1) seems to have > no problem with the files as they were.) Hello Michael, this is a problem with the older man implementation (man 1.6g) and compressed man pages (man-db is not affected). There is no zsoelim(1) in this implementation. Instead, man(1) has special code to handle redirections which recognizes .so only in the very first line. With uncompressed man pages it doesn't matter because groff finds the target page, but when that file is compresses groff can't find it and the result is an empty page. I know that the older man is mostly irrelevant today (and I have only one installation left for testing), but the fix is trivial, so I decided to submit it. There may also be other tools with similar restrictions, although I don't have any examples. Cheers, Alex -- 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
