man-db: explicitly pass section string #31825
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Work around a bug in the autoconf setup of man-db: The
list of default sections does not include section 0 (zero)
despite ``./configure --help`` advertising it. This causes
header man pages (e. g. time.h from package posix_man_pages)
to be ignored by man(1):
$ file /run/current-system/sw/share/man/man0p/time.h.0p.gz
/run/current-system/sw/share/man/man0p/time.h.0p.gz: gzip compressed data, from Unix
$ man 0p time.h
No manual entry for 0p
No manual entry for time.h
Override the default (as defined in m4/man-arg-sections.m4)
until this is fixed upstream.
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Patch to man-db has been sent upstream, it really is their bug. But for http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/man-db-devel/2017-11/msg00000.html |
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(cherry picked from commit b22492e) It's a trivial bugfix, very unlikely to break anything.
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Work around a bug in the autoconf setup of man-db: The
list of default sections does not include section 0 (zero)
despite
./configure --helpadvertising it. This causesheader man pages (e. g. time.h from package posix_man_pages)
to be ignored by man(1):
Override the default (as defined in m4/man-arg-sections.m4)
until this is fixed upstream.
Motivation for this change
A category of man pages is not addressable by default.
Things done
build-use-sandboxinnix.confon non-NixOS)nix-shell -p nox --run "nox-review wip"./result/bin/)