From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Jun 7 2:30:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6ADE037B406 for ; Fri, 7 Jun 2002 02:30:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g579U4354868; Fri, 7 Jun 2002 02:30:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 02:30:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200206070930.g579U4354868@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Ruslan Ermilov Subject: Re: gnu/38956: stock awk installs gawk.1 manpage, overriding the one in ports Reply-To: Ruslan Ermilov Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR gnu/38956; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Luigi Rizzo Cc: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: gnu/38956: stock awk installs gawk.1 manpage, overriding the one in ports Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 12:28:08 +0300 On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 11:48:36AM -0700, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > >Number: 38956 > >Category: gnu > >Synopsis: stock awk installs gawk.1 manpage, overriding the one in ports > >Confidential: no > >Severity: non-critical > >Priority: medium > >Responsible: freebsd-bugs > >State: open > >Quarter: > >Keywords: > >Date-Required: > >Class: change-request > >Submitter-Id: current-users > >Arrival-Date: Thu Jun 06 11:50:04 PDT 2002 > >Closed-Date: > >Last-Modified: > >Originator: Luigi Rizzo > >Release: FreeBSD RELENG_4 > >Organization: > >Environment: > > The standard awk (3.0.6) in RELENG_4 installs both awk.1 and gawk.1 manpages > into /usr/share/man1. > When one installs ports/lang/gawk (which is version 3.1.0, and > has an important feature, namely asort()) the manpage goes > into /usr/local/man1 and so it is never seen. > > There are two ways around this: either not install the gawk.1 manpage > with the system's awk, or rename the manpage for the port to something > like gawk310 or so. > Putting /usr/local/bin before /bin and /usr/bin in your $PATH should fix the problem. Refer to manpath(1) for details and other possible solutions. 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-bugs" in the body of the message