man-db 2.6.0
Along with many bug fixes, this release adds support for searching the
full manpath when expanding .so directives in manual pages, so that '.so
name.1' works as well as '.so man1/name.1'; it adds basic support for
the implementation of nroff/troff in the Heirloom Documentation Tools;
and it changes the default less prompt to include "(press h for help or
q to quit)", to help novices find their way around.
As promised in the release notes for man-db 2.5.8, man-db no longer
ships its own copy of libpipeline (http://
must build and install that library separately.
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Fixes:
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o Fix build with versions of GNU ld that default to
--no-
o Fix failure to display manual pages in some encodings when
installed setuid.
o Wrap long table cells in man(1), fixing test failures with groff
1.21.
o If an explicit section is passed to man, then pages that match
that section exactly will be preferred over pages that only have
that section as a prefix.
o Fix a segfault when 'man -K' tries to display certain pages.
o Fix a segfault in some situations when processes are killed by
SIGHUP, SIGINT, or SIGTERM.
Improvements:
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o As promised in the release notes for man-db 2.5.8, man-db no
longer ships its own copy of libpipeline
(http://
library separately.
o Search the full manpath when expanding .so directives in manual
pages. As part of this, '.so name.1' should now work as well as
'.so man1/name.1'.
o lexgrog handles roff named glyphs and perldoc strings in NAME
sections.
o man no longer starts a pager if standard output is not a tty.
o The -s option to whatis and apropos now takes a colon- or
comma-separated list of sections, similar to 'man -S'.
o mandb error output is neater when stderr is not a terminal.
o Add basic support for the implementation of nroff/troff in the
Heirloom Documentation Tools. Title lengths are not properly set
as yet, and many features are untested.
o mandb removes cat* and NLS subdirectories of cat directories whose
corresponding man directories no longer exist.
o mandb forces SIGPIPE back to its default disposition on startup,
to avoid noisy output in case it was started in a context where
SIGPIPE was ignored.
o SECTION entries in a user configuration file now override those in
the system configuration file, rather than appending to them.
o The default less prompt now includes "(press h for help or q to
quit)" to help novices find their way around.
o man-db may now be built to use Berkeley DB version 5
(--with-db=db5).
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