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. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
