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: Merton Campbell Crockett <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 16:27:23 -0800
On 18 Nov 2007, at 16:13:32, Martin Costabel wrote:
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.
You're right! I hadn't noticed that all of my man pages are from
August 2005.
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.
Anyway, the paths in the man pages can only be added to /etc/paths.d/
X11 or /etc/manpaths.d/X11 as no attention is paid to other files in
the directory.
Even were attention paid to other files, the results would be wrong
for Fink or MacPorts users when installing applications that replace
Apple versions. The search order is important.
Merton Campbell Crockett
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