man pages won't work

[Smith, Donald]

Try
configure --with-catman=man (and what ever other switches you use)
Then u could just make manpages to install only the manpages.

Donald Smith
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Dykstra [mailto:dwd at bell-labs.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 11:54 AM
> To: Gert Doering
> Cc: Stephan Hendl; openssh-unix-dev at mindrot.org
> Subject: Re: man pages won't work
> 
> 
> On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 06:48:22PM +0100, Gert Doering wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 11:36:31AM +0100, Stephan Hendl wrote:
> > > I am sorry about this stupid question but after 
> compilation of openssh-2.3.0p1 the manpages were installed 
> but a man ssh gives only  unstructured response without 
> underlined lines etc. A nroff -man sshd.8 gives the same 
> output but the contents of the file shows a nroff-format.
> > 
> > Seconded.  I thought it was only me (and didn't investigate 
> further).
> > 
> > To me, it seems as if some nroff-macros are used that 
> "generic nroff -man"
> > doesn't know.
> 
> It's using -mandoc instead of -man.  I can get that to work with GNU's
> nroff but not any others, and I can see this is going to be a problem
> for me because not everywhere I need to deploy openssh to will have
> access to -mandoc.
> 
> - Dave Dykstra
>