On May 17 20:17, Michael Wild wrote: > 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.
Oh, wow, manpath has its own man page. The above information (leading colon, etc) was exactly what I waas missing in the man manpages. Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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