Re: git doc build failure on OS X 10.5.6 (Leopard) during xmlto phase

From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Date: Mar 11, 2009, 16:27 UTC
Message-ID: <49B7E670.7060606@drmicha.warpmail.net>
In-Reply-To: <76718490903110849x2ef48a89j3f17706390991eda@mail.gmail.com>

Jay Soffian venit, vidit, dixit 11.03.2009 16:49:

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> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> And your man pages still won't be perfect. Preformatted text will look
>>> like this:
>>>
>>>  .ft C
>>>          ...
>>>  .ft
> I must be losing my mind. This is suddenly working, though I can't
> track it down to any change in git. I just rebuilt my man pages and
> this no longer is occurring, even though I still have a terminal
> window open with the output of "git help help" _showing this problem_
> and that's from man pages I built/installed just a few days ago. (And
> I haven't upgraded MacPorts lately.)
> 
> Oh well.
> 
> j.

FWIW: The effect you describe (which is different from the OP) occurs on
Fedora 10 as well, and not only for git man pages, also for others. I've
been meaning to look into this, just like I've been meaning to look into
so much stuff...

Michael