mandb -t

Michael Schwendt mschwendt at gmail.com
Sat Sep 17 18:01:29 UTC 2011


Running "mandb -t" on Fedora 16 development fills a few screens with
errors, such as:

mandb: can't open /usr/share/man/ne_set_session_flag.3: No such file or directory
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/ne_get_session_flag.3.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request
mandb: can't open /usr/share/man/ne_buffer_append.3: No such file or directory
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/ne_buffer_zappend.3.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request
mandb: can't open /usr/share/man/ne_malloc.3: No such file or directory
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/ne_strndup.3.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request
mandb: can't open /usr/share/man/ne_set_useragent.3: No such file or directory
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/ne_set_read_timeout.3.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request
[...]

Examining the first two lines:

$ zcat /usr/share/man/man3/ne_get_session_flag.3.gz
.so ne_set_session_flag.3

And "man ne_set_session_flag" works.
What's wrong here?

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