Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 01:04:48 +0300 (MSK) From: "."@babolo.ru To: dochawk@psu.edu (Richard E. Hawkins) Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: when manpages collide with system (lf95 fortran) Message-ID: <200203182204.BAA20356@aaz.links.ru> In-Reply-To: <200203182032.g2IKWc314120@fac13.ds.psu.edu> from "Richard E. Hawkins" at "Mar 18, 2 03:32:38 pm"
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Richard E. Hawkins writes: > > Linux fortran compilers generally install everything in > > /usr/local/distname > > complete with bin/ and man/ directories, and a setup script which > modifies PATH and MANPATH to include these. > > It's my inclination to keep this structure, both due to the likelihood > of collisions between vendors if multiple compilers were installed, and > I've now discovered that a man page for rc (a resource compiler) would > conflict wiht the man page for rc (configuration). > > I've hit the glitch that the setup script contains: > > if ($?MANPATH == 0) setenv MANPATH '' IMHO this should be if ($?MANPATH == 0) setenv MANPATH `/usr/bin/manpath` > setenv MANPATH /usr/local/lf9561/manuals/man/ssl2:$MANPATH > setenv MANPATH /usr/local/lf9561/manuals/man/lf95:$MANPATH IMHO strings like OPTIONAL_MANPATH /compat/linux/usr/local/lf9561/manuals/man/lf95 in /etc/manpath.config are better > > This may work in linux, but my default setup results in my not having a > MANPATH set, and thus the regular manpages become unavailable. > > I could hardwire these into the conditional, but I suspect that it's > possible to have manpages in different locations depending on country > and the DISTDIR variable for ports. > > What would be the "correct" way to handle this? > > hawk > > -- > Richard E. Hawkins, Asst. Prof. of Economics /"\ ASCII ribbon campaign > dochawk@psu.edu Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail > These opinions will not be those of X and postings. > Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \ > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message > -- @BABOLO http://links.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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