make check failure with man-pages-6.04?

Hi all,

Congratulations on the new release :)

With make check, I get the following:

```
# make check
GREP    .tmp/man/man1/memusage.1.check-catman.touch
.tmp/man/man1/memusage.1.cat.grep:130:           Memory usage summary: heap total: 45200, heap peak: 6440, stack peak: 224
.tmp/man/man1/memusage.1.cat.grep:133:           realloc|        4044800             0  (nomove:40, dec:19, free:0)
make: *** [lib/check-catman.mk:36:
.tmp/man/man1/memusage.1.check-catman.touch] Error 1
```

I'll be honest and say I have no idea how to interpret this, if it matters, or how to give more info (so let me know how if I need to!)

best,
sam

Also, if you can't get to fixing it, that's no problem obviously, but it'd help a bunch if someone could let me know if this is severe or not
- or if I can just disable tests temporarily in our packaging for now if it's not a big deal.

Hey Sam!

:-)

I expected issues like this from packagers :)
I'm doing the packaging for Debian and will have to disable it too.

You can check what this is doing:

$ make check
GREP	.tmp/man/man1/memusage.1.check-catman.touch
.tmp/man/man1/memusage.1.cat.grep:130:           Memory usage summary: heap total: 45200, heap peak: 6440, stack peak: 224
.tmp/man/man1/memusage.1.cat.grep:133:           realloc|        40         44800             0  (nomove:40, dec:19, free:0)
make: *** [lib/check-catman.mk:36: .tmp/man/man1/memusage.1.check-catman.touch] Error 1
$ make help | grep variables
help-variables		Print all variables available, and their default values
$ make help-variables | grep verbose
V		Define to non-empty string for verbose output
$ make check V=1
GREP	.tmp/man/man1/memusage.1.check-catman.touch
! grep -n '.\{80\}.' .tmp/man/man1/memusage.1.cat.grep /dev/null >&2
.tmp/man/man1/memusage.1.cat.grep:130:           Memory usage summary: heap total: 45200, heap peak: 6440, stack peak: 224
.tmp/man/man1/memusage.1.cat.grep:133:           realloc|        40         44800             0  (nomove:40, dec:19, free:0)
make: *** [lib/check-catman.mk:36: .tmp/man/man1/memusage.1.check-catman.touch] Error 1

So the command that is acutally being run is:

! grep -n '.\{80\}.' .tmp/man/man1/memusage.1.cat.grep /dev/null >&2

Maybe it's still a bit criptic, but the 80 should be a hint to readers. It's just checking that all pages fit within 80 columns.

It depends on how severe you consider that some man pages don't fit in 80 columns :). Nah, it's not a big issue, and it can be safely disabled.

I plan to reduce most of these warnings, but in some cases I don't think I can fix them at all.

You can. Maybe, though, you want to enable some test that works reliably already (and which I'd be interested in being reported if it starts failing):

$ make lint-man-tbl

Best,
Alex

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