Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 14:34:53 +0100 From: Martin Karlsson <martin.karlsson@visit.se> To: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: i386 man pages ignored by whatis Message-ID: <20020326133452.GB7527@foo31-146.visit.se> In-Reply-To: <20020326235314.B300@welearn.com.au> References: <20020326235314.B300@welearn.com.au>
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* Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> [2002-03-26 23.53 +1100]:
> It looks like the man pages that are under the i386 subdirectories
> are not getting picked up by whatis.
>
> This is on a 4.4R box. I see similar problems with other man pages
> that live under i386 subdirectories. The FreeBSD man page search
> page tells me fibbers about them too.
This is odd. I get the same results, so after doing a bit of
reading-up on whatis and makewhatis, I manually set root's $MANPATH
to include /usr/share/man/man4/i386, and then ran 'makewhatis'.
Didn't work. 'Aha', I thought, 'I'll create
/usr/share/man/man4/i386/man, and cp spkr.4.gz to that directory'. I
did that, updated root's $MANPATH, and then ran 'makewhatis $MANPATH'.
That didn't work either :(
So...
> What is the simple and tidy fix?
I'm afraid I don't know (yet ;-)). Have you tried to hack your way
around this in any way?
--
Regards,
Martin Karlsson
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