On Oct 27, 2008, at 23:57, Shawn Protsman wrote:
On Oct 27, 2008, at 6:27 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
On 2008-10-27 20:01:48 -0500, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
Apple sets the MANPATH to "/usr/share/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/
X11/man" on Leopard for you. So at least Apple doesn't think it
should
end with a colon.
Apple often does things wrong. Try (while having /opt/local/bin in
$PATH):
MANPATH="/usr/share/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/X11/man" man port
MANPATH="/usr/share/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/X11/man:" man port
Normally the first one should fail and the second should work.
MANPATH should probably be unset anyway.
The MacPorts installer does add the MacPorts path to the MANPATH
for you
in your .profile if MANPATH is not empty and does not already
contain the
MacPorts manpath. Are you saying the MacPorts installer shouldn't do
that?
A (non-empty) MANPATH containing an empty path (i.e. a colon at the
beginning or at the end, or a "::" sequence) and not containing the
MacPorts manpath is correct, because the empty path will be replaced
by the default paths, that will normally be built using $PATH. The
user may have set up such a MANPATH, and if you modify it, this can
be wrong as you will change the path order.
Okay, so now I'm thoroughly confused. OS X (10.5.5) reported
nothing when I did an 'echo $MANPATH'
Odd; on my 10.5.5 system it says:
$ echo $MANPATH
/usr/share/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/X11/man
$
and wouldn't show me a man page for 'port'.
That is normal when the MANPATH is not empty and does not contain the
MacPorts manpath.
So, I added 'export MANPATH=/opt/local/share/man:$MANPATH' to
my .profile and now at least I can view manpages from macports. Is
there a proper way to pull this off?
That is the until-now recommended way. That is what the MacPorts
installer is supposed to do for you.
Macports 1.6.0 either didn't modify something it should have
There is a bug in the 1.6.0 installer that prevents this from working
properly. It has been fixed in the source code which will become
MacPorts 1.7.0. See:
http://trac.macports.org/wiki/ProblemHotlist#a.profilenotsetup
or it is up to the user to add a MANPATH. If there are system
inconsistencies that might happen then that is bad too.
I'll have to evaluate Vincent's recommendation in this thread and see
what the advantages and disadvantages would be of doing things the
way he suggests instead.
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