man man

Charlse Darwin macports.users at gmail.com
Tue Feb 12 20:05:46 PST 2008


"man" is a port itself. I installed it yesterday.

P.S.: I am gonna go ahead and file the ticket.

On Feb 12, 2008, at 3:04 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On Feb 12, 2008, at 05:56, Charlse Darwin wrote:
>
>> On Feb 11, 2008, at 9:52 PM, Matrix Mole wrote:
>>
>>> On Feb 11, 2008 7:26 PM, Charlse Darwin wrote:
>>>
>>>> What happened here?!
>>>>
>>>> $ which man
>>>> /opt/local/bin/man
>>>> $ man man
>>>>
>>>> man
>>>> (1)
>>>
>>> I'm going to go out on a limb and say that man isn't sending the
>>> output to a troff processor properly. The output you pasted in your
>>> message looks like formatting code, I'm guessing it's the formatting
>>> code of an official man page before it gets processed properly by  
>>> the
>>> man program.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, I have no clue how to fix it. On my system, the only
>>> man program that exists is in /usr/bin, you might try using
>>> /usr/bin/man man and see what you get for output. Then perhaps use
>>> 'file /opt/local/bin/man' and 'file /usr/bin/man' and check the
>>> differences. Not sure if diff would help in this case other than to
>>> tell you that they are different binaries.
>>
>> # System's man works just fine
>> $ /usr/bin/man -v
>> man, version 1.6c
>> $ /opt/local/bin/man -v
>> man, version 1.6f
>
> So the system's "man" works but the MacPorts-provided "man"  
> doesn't? Then you should file a ticket against whatever port  
> installed "man". (Find out with "port provides /opt/local/bin/man").
>
>



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