On 15.05.2014 15:39, Corinna Vinschen wrote: [...] > > You still have to be able to handle MANPATH. Unfortunately the man page > of man-db is a little tight-lipped on how MANPATH is handled exactly, > other than that "its value is used as the path to search for manual > pages." > > Whatever man does with MANPATH, it doesn't drop the default man paths, > apparently. > > [...time passes...] > > Hmm. Interesting enough, the current /etc/man.conf already contains > /usr/ssl/man. How long is it doing that already? If I had known that, > I'd removed the /etc/profile.d/openssl.* files long ago :| > > > Corinna >
Dear all AFAIK the behavior is as usual for *NIX search paths, with two notable exceptions: * A trailing or leading colon means that at this position the default search path from the configuration files is inserted * A double-colon (::) anywhere means that at this position the default search path is inserted Refer to the ENVIRONMENT section of manpath(1), http://manpages.ubuntu.com/man1/manpath.1. Cheers, and a pleasant weekend Michael -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
