* Ross Boulet (2004-02-28 23:06 +0100) > I solved my own problem with man not finding pages but in doing the research > on it, I found something I thought might be worthy of mentioning. From the > message: > > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-04/msg00064.html > > I learned the a colon prefix to $MANPATH allows man to search its default > paths in addition to what is specified in $MANPATH. The > /etc/profile.d/openssl.sh script handles this ok. However, the > /etc/profile.d/XFree86-man.sh does not handle it the same way. I had an > empty $MANPATH (since corrected by a new /etc/profile script). The > XFree86-man.sh ran first and found no $MANPATH and thus assigned > "/usr/X11R6/man" (no colon prefix) to $MANPATH. Then openssl.sh appended > ":/usr/ssl/man". The absence of a leading colon caused man to not find the > basic pages so that basic stuff like 'man ls' produced 'No manual entry for > ls'. > > I would suggest the XFree86-man.sh script be modified to add a colon prefix > to $MANPATH to be consistent with the openssl.sh treatment of an empty > $MANPATH. > > My apologies if this should have been posted to the cygwin-xfree ML, but I > thought it appropriate here because it affects more than X.
You. Man. Are. Genius. Recently I posted http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin/44906 but found no answer or solution. Suddenly completion started to work again but on the next day not even calling a single man page was found by man because of the wrong $MANPATH. Now I corrected 'export MANPATH="${X11MANPATH}"' to 'export MANPATH=":${X11MANPATH}"' in XFree86-man.sh and now everything is okay. Thanks, Thorsten -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
