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- On Sat, 23 Dec 1995, Kevin Donovan wrote:
-
- > I installed libc-5.3.0 last evening from libc-5.3.0.bin.tar.gz and I
- > can't use the man command to read manual pages. libc-5.2.19 gave the
- > same problem. Man works fine with libc-5.2.18, and I have now gone
- > back to 5.2.18.
- >
- > I am using version 2.7.2 of gcc (the "old" gcc), which I compiled
- > myself. Kernel version is 1.3.47. The man pager I use keeps
- > references to the pages in dbm files. I can execute /usr/bin/man, but
- > it crashes if I try to read any documents. If I type "man --version",
- > it responds:
- >
- > man, version 2.3.5, db 2.3.1, April 21st, 1995 (G.Wilford@ee.surrey.ac.uk)
- >
- > If you to need to know more, please let me know.
- >
- > Kevin
-
- The new malloc from Doug Lea caught a bug in
-
- man, version 2.3.10, db 2.3.1, July 12th, 1995 (G.Wilford@ee.surrey.ac.uk)
-
- The setlocale man page under Linux doesn't say the string returned by
- setlocale () will be overwritten by a subsequent call to setlocale(),
- which is mentioned in the SunOS version.
-
- BTW, libc 5.3.0 looks pretty good. If you find your program doesn't
- work anymore with 5.3.0, please debug your program first. man
- is the second bogus libc 5.3.0 report I got.
-
-
- H.J.
- -----
- diff -rc man-2.3.10/src/catman.c man-2.3.10.fixed/src/catman.c
- *** man-2.3.10/src/catman.c Wed Sep 20 14:31:58 1995
- --- man-2.3.10.fixed/src/catman.c Sat Dec 23 12:54:52 1995
- ***************
- *** 387,392 ****
- --- 387,396 ----
-
- #ifdef HAVE_SETLOCALE
- locale = NLS_INIT;
- + if (locale)
- + {
- + locale = xstrdup (locale);
- + }
- #endif /* HAVE_SETLOCALE */
-
- while ((c = getopt_long (argc, argv, args,
- Only in man-2.3.10.fixed/src: lexgrog.c
- diff -rc man-2.3.10/src/man.c man-2.3.10.fixed/src/man.c
- *** man-2.3.10/src/man.c Wed Sep 20 14:31:58 1995
- --- man-2.3.10.fixed/src/man.c Sat Dec 23 12:50:06 1995
- ***************
- *** 675,680 ****
- --- 675,684 ----
- /* initialise the locale */
- #ifdef HAVE_SETLOCALE
- internal_locale = NLS_INIT;
- + if (internal_locale)
- + {
- + internal_locale = xstrdup (internal_locale);
- + }
- #endif /* HAVE_SETLOCALE */
-
- /* export argv, it might be needed when invoking the vendor supplied browser */
- ***************
- *** 730,735 ****
- --- 734,743 ----
- issued as an argument or in $MANOPT */
- if (locale) {
- internal_locale = setlocale(LC_MESSAGES, locale);
- + if (internal_locale)
- + {
- + internal_locale = xstrdup (internal_locale);
- + }
- # ifdef NLS
- NLS_CLOSE;
- catfd = catopen("man_db", MCLoadBySet);
- diff -rc man-2.3.10/src/whatis.c man-2.3.10.fixed/src/whatis.c
- *** man-2.3.10/src/whatis.c Wed Sep 20 14:31:59 1995
- --- man-2.3.10.fixed/src/whatis.c Sat Dec 23 12:54:39 1995
- ***************
- *** 497,502 ****
- --- 497,506 ----
-
- #ifdef HAVE_SETLOCALE
- locale = NLS_INIT;
- + if (locale)
- + {
- + locale = xstrdup (locale);
- + }
- #endif /* HAVE_SETLOCALE */
-
- while ((c = getopt_long (argc, argv, args,
-
-
- Wilf.
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