Generating man pages on macOS is extremely slow

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Generating man pages on macOS is extremely slow

martingalvan opened this issue 6 years ago · 6 comments

martingalvan commented 6 years ago

Hi all,

I'm trying to generate a man page on macOS 10.13.6 (High Sierra). I did:

brew install asciidoc

and then added the following to ~/.bash_profile:

export XML_CATALOG_FILES=/user/local/etc/xml/catalog

Now, when I try to do a2x -f manpage mymanpage.1.txt, the command takes a really long time to complete (3.5 min). The same command takes less than a second on Ubuntu 18.04. What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1 · 2018-10-01T21:30:55.000Z

How long does it take to run asciidoc -b docbook yourfile?

Answer 2 · 2018-10-01T22:05:27.000Z

Just tried it, takes less than a second.

Answer 3 · 2018-10-01T22:21:00.000Z

So the problem is in the docbook to manpage xslt transform. Thats a separate project, and I doubt anybody here can help you.

Alternatively you could try the Asciidoctor implementation of Asciidoc, it doesn't use docbook and xslt for manpages.

Answer 4 · 2018-10-01T22:23:40.000Z

Alright, where should I report the issue instead?

Answer 5 · 2018-10-01T22:28:52.000Z

Here I guess, don't know what version you installed but I guess the issues for the appropriate version.

Answer 6 · 2018-10-01T22:31:13.000Z

I don't see which repository should I report the issue to, so I think I'll just try asciidoctor instead. Thanks.