ActiveState Tk man pages

Hello all,

I've just noticed a few days ago that the
ActiveTcl Tk man pages seems to be all messed up.
Options does not appears in the man pages,
there is just the description of the option without naming it
and without any line separator.
This makes all man pages for Tk unreadable
and ununderstandable.
This is really annoying.
ActiveTcl version is 8.4.11.1
Is there any newer released version which
contains a fix for this documentation problem ?

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David Bariod
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David Bariod wrote:
> I've just noticed a few days ago that the
> ActiveTcl Tk man pages seems to be all messed up.
> Options does not appears in the man pages,
> there is just the description of the option without naming it
> and without any line separator.
> This makes all man pages for Tk unreadable
> and ununderstandable.
> This is really annoying.
> ActiveTcl version is 8.4.11.1
> Is there any newer released version which
> contains a fix for this documentation problem ?

Uh ... what?  Where are you looking that you see any of these
issues?

--
Jeff Hobbs, The Tcl Guy
http://www.ActiveState.com/, a division of Sophos

On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Jeff Hobbs wrote:

> David Bariod wrote: 
>
> Uh ... what?  Where are you looking that you see any of these
> issues?
>

I'm just using
man -M <install path>/man <man page>.
The options name are just missing from the unix man pages.
The html documentation is complete.
The host is Solaris sparc station.

I've just done a diff the options.n man page ditribution
and a man page from an old tcl/tk (8.4.6) build.
Some kinf of header are missing in the active state
man pages.
Here is an excerpt below:

'\" # SO - start of list of standard options
.de SO
.SH "STANDARD OPTIONS"
.LP
.nf
.ta 5.5c 11c
.ft B
..

I do not talk nroff but it looks like some
format macro are missing.
Can it be an installation problem ?

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David Bariod
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David Bariod wrote: 

> I've just done a diff the options.n man page ditribution
> and a man page from an old tcl/tk (8.4.6) build.
> Some kinf of header are missing in the active state
> man pages.

This was caused by a core make target dependencies change,
and the effect was not noticed until you reported it (make
install used to copy the man.macros over in 8.4.6, but
changed to miss that target in later versions).  This will
be fixed in the next release.

--
Jeff Hobbs, The Tcl Guy
http://www.ActiveState.com/, a division of Sophos