Zero-length man pages

[Mercury M. <mer...@gm...>]

Probably a user error (mine), but here's what happened:

On kernel 2.6.16.5, I tried to build lirc-0.8.0 from the tarball - failed.
Looked in the mailing list, found that CVS should be used for 2.6.16.

Tried to checkout the source using anonymous as the string between
:pserver: and @cvs.sourceforge.net . . . .  for the login step - failed.
Substituted the string lirc for anonymous - got logged in OK.  But, I
had to go back to the string anonymous to actually download the source.

The make and make install steps seemed to go well, the kernel module
lirc_atiusb looks good.  But all the man pages in /usr/local/man/man1
have a length of zero.

Some good news though:  The man pages from the failed lirc-0.8.0 build
have non-zero lengths, so I can use them and/or read the man pages
from the lirc.org website.

What went wrong?  It must be something I left out, or the odd CVS login
and checkout steps.

Thanks to the authors and contributors - lirc is a great tool.

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MM