Make sure your MANPATH is set with /usr/share/man before /usr/gnu/man.
The default 2008.11 MANPATH matches the default 2008.11 PATH of having
the GNU utilties first.
-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
Richard Friedman wrote:
> Looks like the diff man page is not describing the right version of diff in
> /usr/bin and /bin, on 2008.11.
> In particular, the man page mentions -y, but diff complains if you try to use
> it. The summary output by diff also doesn't look like what's described in the
> man page.
>
> I submitted a bug report on this,
> http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=5584
>
> I wonder if there are others like this?
>
> And, how did it happen?
>
> Interestingly, the diff man page on my Solaris 10 SPARC box describes the
> diff in OS 2008.11 (no -y).
