Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 22:19:31 +0200 From: Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@stack.nl> To: Anonymous <swell.k@gmail.com> Cc: Gordon Tetlow <gordon@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CFR: Replace man/manpath/whatis/apropos with a shell script Message-ID: <20100909201931.GB48144@stack.nl> In-Reply-To: <868w3aem0a.fsf@gmail.com> References: <AANLkTi=d1RqZhkJJ94DioZkBq3Pq5vrj0kxBSgdW%2BUUo@mail.gmail.com> <86sk2b79oi.fsf@gmail.com> <AANLkTimRLPe25WeG5JSJJeNbHstq7KizJ-eHOKF-Ju-T@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTim3OJH_B_ZmEbxSvg6Ehww=D8X1e1tYhMrhROZi@mail.gmail.com> <868w3aem0a.fsf@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 11:48:37PM +0400, Anonymous wrote: > Gordon Tetlow <gordon@freebsd.org> writes: > > Gordon Tetlow <gordon@freebsd.org> writes: > >> Anonymous <swell.k@gmail.com> writes: > >>> It doesn't search in bin/../man nor in bin/.man. For example, > >>> my PATH contains $LOCALBASE/bin:$HOME/.bin, while /etc/ > >>> manpath.config > >>> is default one and contains /usr/local/man which does not > >>> exist here. > >> Guess I missed that pretty badly in my port. I'll go back and > >> retool the logic for this but that'll take a bit of time. > > Added. Latest version at http://people.freebsd.org/~gordon/man.sh > The order is still bogus compared to gnu man. If I don't like our > ancient GNU tools and altered PATH in order to prefer ones from ports > then I certainly don't want to view old manpages, too. The base manpath > should be appended *after* any PATH substitutions. That is appropriate, but to avoid breaking the more common setup with /usr/bin before /usr/local/bin, search_path needs to map the PATH directories /bin and /usr/bin to the man directory /usr/share/man. GNU man does the same, but it is written into /etc/manpath.config. -- Jilles Tjoelker
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