perl5.8 fixup

Rainer Müller raimue at macports.org
Tue Mar 10 13:27:36 PDT 2009


Eric Hall wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 07:02:06PM -0700, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:
>> On Mar 9, 2009, at 5:27 PM, Marcus Calhoun-Lopez wrote:
>>> There is the issue that the user must modify his or her manpath.
>>> An alternate solution is to rename the manpages.
>> Not according to my tests. Creating man1perl58 and man3perl58 without  
>> altering man paths seems to work.
> 
> 	How did you test that the man pages were found?  Did you check
> that man found the right files and not, say, the system-installed
> files?  Check 'ps' for what files are being picked up.

Better and easier check 'man -w' to see the filename of the man page
what would have been displayed or 'man -aw' to view all in the order of
the MANPATH.

Rainer


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