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Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 14:34:53 +0100
From: Martin Karlsson <martin.karlsson@visit.se>
To: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au>
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Subject: Re: i386 man pages ignored by whatis
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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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