man pages

[Алексей Муранов]

After following the suggestion of Matt to modify my man.conf clear my  
MANPATH variable,
i now can see man pages for all the ports (or so it seems so far).
Thanks.

Le 23 Apr 2007 à 15:39, Matt Meissner a écrit :

> On Apr 22, 2007, at 6:04 AM, Алексей Муранов wrote:
>
>> Le 22 Apr 2007 à 00:18, Matt Meissner a écrit :
>>
>>> On Apr 21, 2007, at 3:55 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Apr 21, 2007, at 11:25, Sbranzo wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 21/04/07 00:56, Алексей Муранов wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>> i have a small problem.
>>>>>> I have just installed MascPorts, and tried
>>>>>> $ man port
>>>>>> but received
>>>>>> No manual entry for portgroup
>>>>>
>>>>> Maybe your $MANPATH doesn't include /opt/local/share/man/, if  
>>>>> you add
>>>>> export MANPATH=/opt/local/share/man:/opt/local/man:/usr/share/ 
>>>>> man:/usr/local/share/man
>>>>> to your .profile all should work correctly.
>>>>> I thinks the tiger version of man have hardcoded other paths,  
>>>>> since
>>>>> MANPATH doesn't have to include system man page folders.
>>>>
>>>> My MANPATH is empty but I still seem to be able to read manpages  
>>>> for ports. I'm on Tiger.
>>>
>>> look up man(1) for the details, but on Tiger the man command  
>>> looks at each item in your PATH, changes any "/bin" into "/man",  
>>> and searches there for manpages.
>>>
>>> To bring this back to MacPorts, if I remember correctly, this is  
>>> the only reason why ${prefix}/man -> ${prefix}/share/man is still  
>>> around.  It was decided ages ago that the canonical location for  
>>> man pages is ${prefix}/share/man
>>>
>> Ok, after changing my MANPATH, i can use
>> $ man port ,
>> but not man for specific ports.
>> For example,
>> $ man transfig
>> or
>> $ man xfig
>> do not work.
>>
>
> I don't have those ports installed.  Are you certain they have man  
> pages in /opt/local/share/man?
>
>> What are the other directories that i should add to MANPATH?
>>
>> Here are my variables:
>>
>> MANPATH=/opt/local/share/man:/usr/local/teTeX/man:/usr/local/share/ 
>> man:/usr/share/man
>> PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/ 
>> usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current:/usr/local/bin
>> INFOPATH=/usr/local/teTeX/info:/usr/local/share/info:/usr/local/ 
>> lib/info:/usr/local/info:/usr/share/info
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Alexey.
>
> I would really suggest reading the section "SEARCH PATH FOR MANUAL  
> PAGES" in man(1) and the corrosponding config file /usr/share/misc/ 
> man.conf.  Then set up a MANPATH_MAP for "/usr/local/teTeX/bin/ 
> powerpc-apple-darwin-current".  Finally, clear your MANPATH  
> environment variable altogether.
>
>
> -- 
> Matt Meissner
> meissnem at gmail.com
>

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