Re: Where are man pages?
Re: Where are man pages?
- Subject: Re: Where are man pages?
- From: Justin Walker <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 19:52:14 -0800
On Tuesday, November 25, 2003, at 02:51 PM, Martin Costabel wrote:
Justin Walker wrote:
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Nuke any settings of MANPATH in these files. This environment
variable is no longer needed. 'manpath' (the command) takes its
place.
Martin,
would you mind explaining to Lee how he gets manpath to find the man
pages in /usr/local/qt/doc/man, which was in his MANPATH?
I think I did that, implicitly at least. MANPATH is the problem
(unless he's messed with /etc/manpath.conf, which isn't likely).
'manpath' will defer to that environment variable if it's set.
Otherwise, it's driven by the conf file.
Once MANPATH is 'unset', 'manpath' will happily do its thing.
In my opinion Apple's switch to manpath was stupid.
That's what's great about the world. Room for many views and opinion.
This is a system that thinks it is clever, but is very hard to
configure, much harder than setting a correct MANPATH (which is still
possible to use, fortunately). Dumb BSD fundamentalism <grumble>.
I suppose we could debate this until the cows' homecoming, but I'll opt
out.
Cheers,
Justin
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