mandoc on macOS

mandoc on macOS

[Anthony J. Bentley]

Hi,

From Apple's open source releases page, it appears that in macOS 13.0
(released last October), their man(1) implementation was replaced with
a shell script that calls mandoc. As a fallback, if mandoc gives a
-Wunsupp warning and groff is installed, the script uses groff instead.

https://opensource.apple.com/releases/
https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/man/blob/man-44/man/man.sh

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Re: mandoc on macOS

[Jan Stary]

On Apr 04 13:09:28, anthony@anjbe.name wrote:
> >From Apple's open source releases page, it appears that in macOS 13.0
> (released last October), their man(1) implementation was replaced with
> a shell script that calls mandoc. As a fallback, if mandoc gives a
> -Wunsupp warning and groff is installed, the script uses groff instead.

Strangely, even calling just 'man' tries to display something, saying
"This manpage is not compatible with mandoc(1) and might display incorrectly"
and displaying what seems to be the content of the script /usr/bin/man
> https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/man/blob/man-44/man/man.sh
They also install an /etc/man.conf incompatible with mandoc.

Generaly, Apple seems to be replacing the fundamental tools
with *BSD tools (mostly FreeBSD, pf being a notable exception).
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Re: mandoc on macOS

[Jan Stary]

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On May 09 10:27:36, hans@stare.cz wrote:
> On Apr 04 13:09:28, anthony@anjbe.name wrote:
> > >From Apple's open source releases page, it appears that in macOS 13.0
> > (released last October), their man(1) implementation was replaced with
> > a shell script that calls mandoc.

$ mandoc -Tlint /usr/share/man/man*/* > /tmp/lint
$ wc -l /tmp/lint
   98362 /tmp/lint

Attached in case Ingo wants to have a look.
Please let me know if there are specific tests to be done.

	Jan


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