Re: (OT) path_helper [was Re: Xterm not reading dotfiles]
Re: (OT) path_helper [was Re: Xterm not reading dotfiles]
- Subject: Re: (OT) path_helper [was Re: Xterm not reading dotfiles]
- From: Martin Costabel <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 01:13:32 +0100
Merton Campbell Crockett wrote:
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Yet again, where is the documentation for this feature? If you look at
the man pages for man or man.conf, you will be told that
/usr/share/misc/man.conf is the configuration file for man. It doesn't
exist.
You are reading an old "man man". Did you do an upgrade install of
Leopard? Then you are perhaps bitten by the same installer bug as I: I
have hundreds of Tiger man pages still sitting in /usr/share/man/manX
side by side with the Leopard man pages. And the man command chooses the
old ones over the new ones every time.
For example I have
ls -l /usr/share/man/man1/man*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 10981 Jul 2 2006 /usr/share/man/man1/man.1
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 4821 Sep 24 03:54 /usr/share/man/man1/man.1.gz
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 5 Oct 9 2006
/usr/share/man/man1/manpath.1 -> man.1
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 8 Oct 28 12:56
/usr/share/man/man1/manpath.1.gz -> man.1.gz
The gzipped man pages are from Leopard, the others from Tiger.
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This raises a question about updating /etc/paths.d/X11 and
/etc/manpaths.d/X11. Will they be present in Mac OS X 11.6? Will
future Mac OS X 11 installation scripts do the "right thing" and merge
user changes with the new versions of /etc/path, /etc/path.d/X11,
/etc/manpath, and /etc/manpath.d/X11? Will any file in the
/etc/*path.d/ directory be included so that I can have a unique
localization?
Hahaha, the optimist... So far, with every new OSX version the handling
of MANPATH has completely changed.
--
Martin
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