/opt/local/man not added to $MANPATH

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Sep 12, 2009, at 08:00, Ivan Rambius Ivanov wrote:

> I am using MacPorts 1.8 and noticed that man(1) does not find the
> manual pages for programs installed as mac ports. The reason turned
> out to be that $PREFIX/man, in my case /opt/local/man is not in
> $MANPATH. I checked $HOME/.profile:
>
> #
> # Your previous .profile  (if any) is saved as .profile.mpsaved
> # Setting the path for MacPorts.
> export PATH=$HOME/bin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH
>
> It seems that when installing MacPorts it changes $PATH. I manually
> adjusted $MANPATH. Would it be appropriate if MacPorts installation
> adjusts $MANPATH as well?

Note that the correct manpath is ${prefix}/share/man, not ${prefix}/man.

MacPorts installation does modify the manpath if it thinks that's  
necessary. I'm not sure why in your case it did not determine that it  
was necessary.