From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 26 6:44: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (whale.sunbay.crimea.ua [212.110.138.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8ED1537B41A for ; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 06:43:56 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ru@localhost) by whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (8.11.6/8.11.2) id g2QEgGu77037; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 16:42:16 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from ru) Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 16:42:16 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Sue Blake Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: i386 man pages ignored by whatis Message-ID: <20020326144216.GA76411@sunbay.com> References: <20020326235314.B300@welearn.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020326235314.B300@welearn.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 11:53:14PM +1100, Sue Blake wrote: > 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. > > What is the simple and tidy fix? > Fixed four days ago in makewhatis.perl,v 1.27. : revision 1.27 : date: 2002/03/22 09:59:16; author: ru; state: Exp; lines: +3 -1 : Revision 1.45 of gnu/usr.bin/man/man.c obviated the need to link : manpages in machine-specific subdirectories (like man4/i386/) to : "../". This change didn't propagate here resulting in a loss of : whatis(1) database entries. Fix this. : : Reviewed by: tobez : MFC after: 1 week Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message