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From: Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@stack.nl>
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Cc: Gordon Tetlow <gordon@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: CFR: Replace man/manpath/whatis/apropos with a shell script
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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