On Sep 19, 2009, at 22:50, Mark A. Miller wrote:
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
If your MANPATH is empty (as I believe we recommend), then man will
automatically search for things in all the locations specified in
PATH (that is, for every path in PATH, man will look in ../share/
man for manpages).
It's not empty, as seen by my .profile modified by MacPorts install:
# MacPorts Installer addition on 2009-06-11_at_17:44:56: adding an
appropriate MANPATH variable for use with MacPorts.
export MANPATH=/opt/local/share/man:$MANPATH
# Finished adapting your MANPATH environment variable for use with
MacPorts.
But making it empty still results it the behavior you describe,
so...redundancy yay!
Yeah, I believe Apple started shipping a nonempty MANPATH in Leopard.
Not sure why.
Though it's sounding strange for libexec/gnu to be its own prefix.
apach2, for example, uses ${prefix}/apache2 as its prefix. Granted
that violates the mtree, which I originally objected to in this
thread. :/ Guess I don't really know where it should go.
Is there really anything bad other than "strange"? Sure it's perhaps
strange, but for the people who don't need this, it doesn't ever
bother them, and the people who do, it is a nice, cool little
addition.
${prefix}/var/gnu? ${prefix}/share/gnu?
The disadvantage of that would be that it doesn't get the automatic
MANPATHness described above.
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