test1173: detect some basic man page format mistakes

Triggered by PR #4111

Closes #4113

diff --git a/tests/data/Makefile.inc b/tests/data/Makefile.inc
index 6c5ace0b6089bacd6dc17c48f7594743aa95c3ff..6ec5a3c187655ee5c15037a1472939f4bec7877b 100644 (file)
--- a/tests/data/Makefile.inc
+++ b/tests/data/Makefile.inc
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ test1136 test1137 test1138 test1139 test1140 test1141 test1142 test1143 \
 test1144 test1145 test1146 test1147 test1148 test1149 test1150 test1151 \
 test1152 test1153 test1154 test1155 test1156 test1157 test1158 test1159 \
 test1160 test1161 test1162 test1163 test1164 test1165 \
-test1170 test1171 test1172 \
+test1170 test1171 test1172 test1173 \
 \
 test1200 test1201 test1202 test1203 test1204 test1205 test1206 test1207 \
 test1208 test1209 test1210 test1211 test1212 test1213 test1214 test1215 \

diff --git a/tests/data/test1173 b/tests/data/test1173
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..d489965
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/data/test1173
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+<testcase>
+<info>
+<keywords>
+source analysis
+documentation
+--manual
+</keywords>
+</info>
+
+#
+# Client-side
+<client>
+<server>
+none
+</server>
+
+ <name>
+Basic man page syntax check
+ </name>
+
+<command type="perl">
+%SRCDIR/manpage-syntax.pl %SRCDIR/../docs/*.1  %SRCDIR/../docs/libcurl/*.3
+</command>
+</client>
+
+</testcase>

diff --git a/tests/manpage-syntax.pl b/tests/manpage-syntax.pl
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..7a7137a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/manpage-syntax.pl
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env perl
+#***************************************************************************
+#                                  _   _ ____  _
+#  Project                     ___| | | |  _ \| |
+#                             / __| | | | |_) | |
+#                            | (__| |_| |  _ <| |___
+#                             \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2019, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+#
+# This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which
+# you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms
+# are also available at https://curl.haxx.se/docs/copyright.html.
+#
+# You may opt to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute and/or sell
+# copies of the Software, and permit persons to whom the Software is
+# furnished to do so, under the terms of the COPYING file.
+#
+# This software is distributed on an "AS IS" basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY
+# KIND, either express or implied.
+#
+###########################################################################
+#
+# Scan man page(s) and detect some simple and yet common formatting mistakes.
+#
+# Output all deviances to stderr.
+
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+
+# we may get the dir roots pointed out
+my @manpages=@ARGV;
+my $errors = 0;
+
+sub scanmanpage {
+    my ($file) = @_;
+
+    print "Check $file\n";
+    open(M, "<$file") || die "no such file: $file";
+    my $line = 1;
+    while(<M>) {
+        if($_ =~ /^\'/) {
+            print STDERR "$file:$line line starts with single quote!\n";
+            $errors++;
+        }
+        if($_ =~ /\\f([BI])(.*)/) {
+            my ($format, $rest) = ($1, $2);
+            if($rest !~ /\\fP/) {
+                print STDERR "$file:$line missing \\f${format} terminator!\n";
+                $errors++;
+            }
+        }
+        $line++;
+    }
+    close(M);
+}
+
+
+for my $m (@manpages) {
+    scanmanpage($m);
+}
+
+exit $errors;