From 41f393601155f987e273b2a177289e9b3deaecea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 16:15:26 +0000
Subject: When trying to edit an existing database with makewhatis(8) -d or -u
 but reading the database fails, report the full path to the database on
 standard error, and mention that the database is automatically recreated from
 scratch. Suggested by espie@.

---
 mandocdb.c | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

(limited to 'mandocdb.c')

diff --git a/mandocdb.c b/mandocdb.c
index 16dda371..328abac7 100644
--- a/mandocdb.c
+++ b/mandocdb.c
@@ -448,10 +448,10 @@ mandocdb(int argc, char *argv[])
 			if (nodb == 0)
 				dbprune(dba);
 		} else {
-			/*
-			 * Database missing or corrupt.
-			 * Recreate from scratch.
-			 */
+			/* Database missing or corrupt. */
+			say(MANDOC_DB,
+			    "%s: Automatically recreating from scratch",
+			    strerror(errno));
 			exitcode = (int)MANDOCLEVEL_OK;
 			op = OP_DEFAULT;
 			if (0 == treescan())
-- 
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