Date: Sun, 2 May 2004 17:38:33 -0400 From: Adam Weinberger <adamw@FreeBSD.org> To: Carsten.Rossow@t-online.de Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: yelp problem Message-ID: <20040502213833.GO15500@toxic.magnesium.net> In-Reply-To: <OFD2B95140.825FCEEA-ONC1256E88.00725411@t-online.de> References: <OFD2B95140.825FCEEA-ONC1256E88.00725411@t-online.de>
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>> (05.02.2004 @ 1703 PST): Carsten.Rossow@t-online.de said, in 1.2K: << > Hi, > > I have FreeBSD 5.1 with Gnome installed from the packages, and yelp shows > all manual pages. A freshly installed 5.2 also works if Gnome was > installed from the packages, but after a portupgrade or if installed > Gnome from the ports, the man pages are not shown (not only not shown, but > not even in the table of contents). > > I looked all over, and the only things I found was a mail in the archive, > advising to add the MANPATH to the environment. As this is not the case on > the 5.1 system - where yelp works as deired - I doubt that this is the > reason for my problem. How are they found when I'm issuing the man command > if the MANPATH was not set somehow? > > I wonder what I am missing. On the 5.1 box, I fond some yelp-related files > in /usr/X11R6/libexec (yelp-db2html, yelp-info2html and yelp-man2html) > that are not on the 5.2 box. If the port did not install them, how do I > get them? What's in the packe the port does not have? > > I'm a little helpless and would appreciate some hints. >> end of "yelp problem" from Carsten.Rossow@t-online.de << Manpage support was removed from the Yelp code. I'm not pleased about it either. # Adam -- Adam Weinberger adamw@magnesium.net || adamw@FreeBSD.org adamw@vectors.cx || adamw@gnome.org http://www.vectors.cx
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