Hamish wrote:

> sorry for the trouble, but I've just discovered that the man pages need
> to go back into $GISBASE because of the way that `manpath` works.
> 
> it searches $PATH and for each path dir, if ../man/ exists it is added
> to the manpath search list. Adding a symlink back there works, but seems
> unnecessarily redundant.

There's no need to rely upon man's automatic behaviour, and doing so
is unreliable as the automatic search path is only used if MANPATH
isn't set.

Whatever adds $GISBASE/bin to PATH should add $GISBASE/docs/man to
MANPATH.

-- 
Glynn Clements <[email protected]>
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