[nslu2-linux] man / groff shows undecoded escape sequences (was: "groff" install broken, need some hint)

Hi Brian and all,

Now I switched from busybox's less to optware's less.
Also, I export PAGER=/opt/bin/less
(even if "opkg install less" does something to bend less to the new one).

The problem doesn't disappear. Same as before.
"ncurses" is installed, but "ncursesw" isn't - and can't.
As far as I can see, it doesn't exist in ipkg nor opkg.

Thus, I changed in /opt/etc/man.con the line with "GROFF".
Just added "-c" to it, as told in
<http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2006-11/msg00552.html>
and <http://osdir.com/ml/lfs.support/2002-10/msg00353.html>.

This made man working only in black and grey letters on white background,
but - it's okay! Let's say "WORKSFORME".

Thank you all for friendly assistance!!!

BTW:
If we want to try out, why opkg less didn't fixed it ... let's talk further.

> ________________________________________________________________________
> 1b. Re: "groff" install broken, need some hint
> Posted by: "brian_zhou" b88zhou@gmail.com brian_zhou
> Date: Thu Oct 29, 2009 1:27 pm ((PDT))
>
> Don't know why libstdc++ got "Status: install ok not-installed".
>
> For the corrupt man screen problem, can you make sure optware less is installed, and export PAGER=/opt/bin/less ? Note optware mc is compiled with slang, while less depends on ncursesw.
>
> -Brian
>
> --- In nslu2-linux@yahoogroups.com, Mai Kee Reis <maik_nospam_reiss@...> wrote:
>
>> Hi Mike and Brian,
>> and all others who would like to help,
>>
>> Yes it is a pair of NSLU2s, both running SlugOS/LE 5.3 with optware feed
>> installed.
>> Adviced by your hints, guesses and questions, I asked again the ipkg,
>> this time about libstdc:
>> MySlug:~# ipkg info 'libstdc*'
>> Package: libstdc++
>> Version: 6.0.9-6
>>
>>> Status: install ok not-installed
>>>
>> Section: util
>> Architecture: arm
>> maintainer: NSLU2 Linux <nslu2-linux@yahoogroups.com>
>> MD5Sum: c2ad38208949ec60177569a55455055a
>> Size: 217708
>> Filename: libstdc++_6.0.9-6_arm.ipk
>> Source: /
>> Description: Standard C++ library, needed for dynamically linked C++
>> programs
>>
>> See above, the line at the '>' mark. Looks like groff ipkg packet really
>> has problems to resolve libstdc dependency, right?
>> Groff knows about the dependancy, see here:
>> MySlug:~# ipkg status groff
>> Package: groff
>> Version: 1.19.2-2
>>
>>> Depends: libstdc++
>>>
>> Status: install ok installed
>> Architecture: arm
>>
>> But for some unknown reasons, I have to manually install libstdc++ now.
>> Okay, I'll do it now:
>> MySlug:~# ipkg install libstdc++
>> (please wait a while, it is just running...okay, it has finished)
>> Now, 'man' and 'groff' have all subsequent libraries .....
>>
>> Oooops!!! New trouble!
>>
>> .... something with the terminal control is bad. See below snipped, I
>> removed some of the blank lines.
>>
>> MySlug:~# man man
>> ________________________________________________________________
>>
>> man(1)
>> man(1)
>> [[1mNAME[[0m
>> man - format and display the on-line manual pages
>> [[1mSYNOPSIS[[0m
>> ________________________________________________________________
>>
>> It looks to me as if ESCAPE-sequences for colorisation are used, but the
>> teminal does not understand it.
>> Please note, my terminal does understand such stuff. I'm connected via
>> ssh, ls and midnight commander
>> are working very well in full colored mode. Just checked it twice again.
>> The related settings are:
>> PAGER='less'
>> VISUAL='joe'
>> TERM='linux'
>> TERMINFO='/opt/lib/terminfo'
>> LS_OPTIONS='--color=auto -h -a -L'
>> But I don't know enough about linux to tell you which terminfo version I
>> installed once.
>> I'm pretty shure, it's the one which was required to get midnight
>> commander working.
>>
>> I would highly appreciate further help from you all,
>> with best regards,
>> Mai Kee R.
>>
>> BTW.:
>> Each day I'm using SlugOS, I see I wasted years of my life with DOS and
>> Windows.
>>
>>

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