On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 8:09 AM, Mikhail Usenko <cyg...@inbox.ru> wrote: > On Sat, 17 May 2014 10:37:30 +0200 > Achim Gratz <...> wrote: > >> Corinna Vinschen writes: >> > Whatever, it looks like MANPATH can really go away. Achim, do your worst. >> >> Done. >> > > Besides defining MANPATH (and the other variables such as INFOPATH and PATH > which can be modified by the user's .bash_profile) /etc/profile also did > export the MANPATH variable. > Now it does not and I suppose that user's skeleton file > /etc/skel/.bash_profile should provide user-defined MANPATH pro-forma as an > exported environment variable or else it will have no effect. > > -- > Mike [...]
Why does Cygwin need to define MANPATH by default? Cygwin uses /etc/man_db.conf, just like the Red Hat family of Linux distros. (The Debian family uses /etc/manpath.config). -Mike D -- 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
