Bug 30940
| Summary: | manpath documentation confusing or confused | ||
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| Product: | Documentation | Reporter: | Jonathan Amery <jdamery> |
| Component: | Books & Articles | Assignee: | ru <ru> |
| Status: | Closed FIXED | ||
| Severity: | Affects Only Me | ||
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | Latest | ||
| Hardware: | Any | ||
| OS: | Any | ||
State Changed From-To: open->closed Fixed, thanks! Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-doc->ru |
The manpath manpage reads: Manpath tries to determine the user's manpath from a set of system defaults and the user's PATH, echoing the result to the standard output. Warnings and errors are written to the standard error. If a directory in the user's path is not listed in the /etc/manpath.config file, manpath looks for the subdirectories man or MAN. If they exist, they are added to the search path. Which suggests that the manpages for /foo/bar/bin are looked for in /foo/bar/bin/man and not in /foo/bar/man (where they probably are, and it certainly does appear to look). Fix: Discover what manpath actually does do then document that. How-To-Repeat: Should be obvious.