manpath

Tue Oct 28 20:19:42 PDT 2008

On 2008-10-28 19:42:48 -0500, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On Mac OS X 10.4 (and earlier), Apple provides no /private/etc/man.conf.
>
> On Mac OS X 10.5 (and later?), Apple does provide /private/etc/man.conf 
> and it does set MANPATH. It's not really MacPorts' place to modify 
> Apple-provided files so we have to work with that file as it is.

Actually, /etc/man.conf doesn't seem to be necessary:

prunille:~> env -u MANPATH /usr/bin/man -w port
/opt/local/share/man/man1/port.1

The right thing is to unset MANPATH.

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