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+#! /bin/sh
+set -e
+
+# Check that a manual page formats without errors. Lintian does something
+# similar for Debian packages. Relies on top_builddir and LINGUA variables
+# exported from 'make check', or you can set them manually.
+
+if [ -z "$top_builddir" ]; then
+ echo "top_builddir unset; try 'make check' instead?"
+ exit 77
+elif [ -z "$LINGUA" ]; then
+ echo "LINGUA unset; try 'make check' instead?"
+ exit 77
+fi
+
+[ -x "$top_builddir/src/man" ] || exit 77
+
+warnings=mac
+# Ignore wrapping failures for CJK manual pages; this should go away once
+# groff supports these natively.
+# Indeed, even for other languages we're going to get "cannot adjust line"
+# if %manpath_config_file% expands to something long. Hmm. We'll just ignore
+# this across the board for now.
+warnings="$warnings,!break"
+
+code=0
+errors="$(LC_ALL=C MANWIDTH=80 MAN_KEEP_FORMATTING=1 "$top_builddir/libtool" \
+ --mode=execute \
+ -dlopen "$top_builddir/lib/.libs/libman.la" \
+ -dlopen "$top_builddir/libdb/.libs/libmandb.la" \
+ "$top_builddir/src/man" --warnings="$warnings" -E UTF-8 \
+ -l "$1" \
+ 2>&1 >/dev/null)" || code=$?
+
+if [ "$code" != 0 ]; then
+ echo "man -E UTF-8 -l $1 failed with exit status $code and error output:"
+ echo "$errors"
+ exit $code
+elif [ "$errors" ]; then
+ echo "man -E UTF-8 -l $1 produced error output:"
+ echo "$errors"
+ exit 1
+else
+ exit 0
+fi