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From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>
To: Jens Rehsack <rehsack@liwing.de>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
In-Reply-To: <200205261105.g4QB51g77839@helo.liwing.de>
Subject: Re: conf/38567: man could not find manpages for library functions in installed ports
References: <200205261105.g4QB51g77839@helo.liwing.de>

>Number:         38598
>Category:       conf
>Synopsis:       Re: conf/38567: man could not find manpages for library functions in installed ports
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
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>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon May 27 00:40:03 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:    Mon Jun 03 17:37:08 PDT 2002
>Last-Modified:  Mon Jun 03 17:40:01 PDT 2002
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>Description:
 On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 11:05:01AM +0000, Jens Rehsack wrote:
 > 
 > 	when trying to get some information 'bout - let's say gettext - 'man dcgettext'
 > 	fails. To repair this I always set MANPATH environment variable until I see
 > 	/etc/manpath.conf. After a short look I saw that only binaries are mapped, so
 > 	neither ports library functions nor X (or X-related) library function calls
 > 	could be looked up via man.
 > 	This two appended lines fix this :-)
 > 
 > --- manpath.patch begins here ---
 > --- manpath.config.orig	Sun May 26 10:52:14 2002
 > +++ manpath.config	Sun May 26 10:54:19 2002
 > @@ -17,6 +17,8 @@
 >  # check if the directory exists and if it does, add it to MANPATH
 >  #
 >  OPTIONAL_MANPATH	/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/man
 > +OPTIONAL_MANPATH	/usr/local/man
 > +OPTIONAL_MANPATH	/usr/X11R6/man
 >  #
 >  # set up PATH to MANPATH mapping
 >  #
 > --- manpath.patch ends here ---
 > 
 No.  Please instead fix your $PATH to include /usr/local/bin and
 /usr/X11R6/bin.  That would automatically tune up your manpath(1)
 output.  The purpose is to avoid displaying those manpages that
 you do not use.
 
 
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>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: johan 
State-Changed-When: Mon Jun 3 17:35:56 PDT 2002 
State-Changed-Why:  
Follow-up to PR 38567 


Responsible-Changed-From-To: gnats-admin->freebsd-bugs 
Responsible-Changed-By: johan 
Responsible-Changed-When: Mon Jun 3 17:35:56 PDT 2002 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Follow-up to PR 38567 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=38598 
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