Corinna schrieb: >> > You've assumed that MANPATH had a previous value. >> >> This is the default file which gets installed with openssl by setup.exe. >> So if there is no previous value for MANPATH this cannot work. >> Other application are looking for MANPATH in the environment and don't >> find other manpages in /usr/man e.g.
> Did you actually try it? If MANPATH has a leading colon, it's *appended* > to the internal search path. If not, it's used exclusivly. > $ export MANPATH="/usr/ssl/man" > $ man man > No manual entry for man > $ export MANPATH=":/usr/ssl/man" > $ man man > [Man page follows] Hmmm, my script isn't able to benefit from this behaviour. It looks like this: if [[ -z $MANPATH ]]; then manpath="/usr/local/man /usr/man" else manpath=${MANPATH//:/ } fi Then there will be searched in this 'PATH': :/usr/ssl/man and the man manpage gets not found there. I'll change it. >> >> > Earnie. >> >> > "Gerrit P. Haase" wrote: >> >> >> >> Hallo, >> >> >> >> This >> >> $ cat /etc/profile.d/openssl.sh >> >> export MANPATH="${MANPATH}:/usr/ssl/man" >> >> >> >> results in: >> >> $ set | grep MANPATH >> >> MANPATH=:/usr/ssl/man -- =^..^= -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/