Re: Zsh util helpfiles does not produce output

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Apr 24, 12:47pm, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
} 
} on a Gentoo Linux with Perl 5.8.8 and Zsh 4.3.9. The commands don't 
} error but I receive no output at all.
} 
} On a Cygwin system with Perl 5.10 the help files are generated just 
} fine.
} 
} Any way to debug that?

Start by capturing the output of "man zshbuiltins" on both machines
and compare.

Then capture "man zshbuiltins | colcrt -" or equivalent and compare.

If you don't find an explanation by that point, there's a problem with
the perl script.

One possibility is that "man" on Gentoo is producing UTF-8 output,
which the perl script probably can't deal with.  Try forcing another
locale.