manpath

Bryan Blackburn blb at macports.org
Mon Oct 27 13:06:58 PDT 2008


On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 08:57:42AM -0700, Shawn Protsman said:
> On Oct 27, 2008, at 7:22 AM, Robert Goldman wrote:
>
>> Isn't the right thing to edit /etc/man.conf so that the path -> man
>> translation works, and then make sure that your MANPATH environment
>> variable is *not* set?
>>
>> I think Shawn's problem was (at least possibly) not having /opt entries
>> in /etc/man.conf.
>>
>> BTW, for people like me who read this as a digest, what's the best way
>> to respond so that threading works?
>
> If modifying /etc/man.conf is the right thing to do, how many entries  
> need to be added for /opt?
>

Modifying /etc/man.conf shouldn't be necessary, my MANPATH is unset, no /opt
entries in /etc/man.conf, and man works fine with MacPorts-installed items.

Make sure your MANPATH is actually unset and not empty (env |grep MANPATH),
perhaps that is what is causing the issue.

Bryan


> --Shawn


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