Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 22:15:39 -0700 From: Sean McNeil <sean@mcneil.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: man is broken and use.perl script shows the problem Message-ID: <1098422139.1194.4.camel@server.mcneil.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] It turns out that if there are too many entries in /etc/manpath.config man will core dump. I sent a trace of this already. I had done one too many portupgrade -f that included perl. The use.perl script blindly adds additional lines # -- use.perl generated line -- # OPTIONAL_MANPATH /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.5/man OPTIONAL_MANPATH /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.5/perl/man and I ended up with a bunch of these. You can reproduce the problem by simply adding enough duplicates of these lines into /etc/manpath.config. use.perl does the same thing with /etc/make.conf but at least in that case it is harmless. Cheers, Sean [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBBeJd7yQsGN30uGE4RAhzpAJ9K/0t8/hdwSEkYK+gW2aw+3pKiEwCglNtU MT3NYjn9iFO+GhQMD1Z/Zy4= =qlN2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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