From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 1 20:24:45 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27FE137B401 for ; Fri, 1 Aug 2003 20:24:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from forrie.com (forrie.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.156.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 198F143F93 for ; Fri, 1 Aug 2003 20:24:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from forrie@forrie.com) Received: from workstation.forrie.com (wks.forrie.net. [192.168.1.21]) by forrie.com with ESMTP id h723OckC003360 for ; Fri, 1 Aug 2003 23:24:39 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from forrie@forrie.com) Message-Id: <6.0.0.14.2.20030801232406.01c2cca8@192.168.1.1> X-Sender: forrie@192.168.1.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.14 (Beta) Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2003 23:24:39 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Forrest Aldrich In-Reply-To: <44n0esd9su.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <6.0.0.14.2.20030801230143.01b01508@192.168.1.1> <6.0.0.12.2.20030717093843.01e35ae0@192.168.1.1> <6.0.0.12.2.20030717093843.01e35ae0@192.168.1.1> <6.0.0.14.2.20030801230143.01b01508@192.168.1.1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-RAVMilter-Version: 8.3.0(snapshot 20010925) (forrie.ne.client2.attbi.com) X-MailScanner: Found to be clean Subject: Re: Groff issues with latest FreeBSD-4.x build X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2003 03:24:45 -0000 Hi there, When I do that, the same exact thing happens... and it's not making any sense to me. What database(s) are dependent upon by "man"? # zcat /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz |nroff -man troff: fatal error: can't find macro file tty-char Forrest At 11:21 PM 8/1/2003, you wrote: >Forrest Aldrich writes: > > > I just rebuilt the entire system from CVS, and still get this problem: > > > > # man man > > Formatting page, please wait...troff: fatal error: can't find macro > > file tty-char > > Done. > > > > This can't be that complex of an issue, which is probably why I'm > > still figuring it out. Doesn't the 'man' command need to find its > > tmac files in /usr/share/tmac? If so, then there's something wrong > > with the man configuration somewhere (something I'm not familiar with). > > > > Any pointers would really be appreciated, nobody else responded. > > >Hmm. Not exactly my thing, but what happens if you try the formatting >directly? > >zcat /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz |nroff -man