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Date:      Sat,  8 Feb 1997 14:50:49 -0500 (EST)
From:      Robert N Watson <rnw+@andrew.cmu.edu>
To:        freebsd-current@freefall.FreeBSD.org
Subject:   3.0-970124-SNAP: man page search order
Message-ID:  <8mzBYNO00YVp0P4FIt@andrew.cmu.edu>

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I installed 3.0SNAP on a machine a week or two ago, and so far have been
extremely impressed with its stability, etc.  I've had only two
difficulties, neither serious:

1. Installing packages from ftp2.freebsd.org sometimes fails for
specific packages -- xemacs in this case.  This may just be a result of
this being a SNAP.  Also, the sysinstall.debug output is weird (lots of
"failure"'s?)

2. The real thing is this.  The man page search order finds all of the c
programming calls after the TCL ones, so "man bind" returns TCL's bind,
not the syscall bind.  This is inconvenient if one is a C programmer not
a TCL programmer.  I assume I can fix this with /etc/manpath.config, but
this doesn't seem like the right default setting?

Thanks,
Robert Watson




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