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Bug 746600 - Setting MANPATH on *BSD causes man to fail to find manuals for system commands
Setting MANPATH on *BSD causes man to fail to find manuals for system commands
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: jhbuild
Classification: Infrastructure
Component: general
unspecified
Other FreeBSD
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: Jhbuild maintainers
Jhbuild QA
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2015-03-22 07:59 UTC by Ting-Wei Lan
Modified: 2015-06-14 06:56 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
environment: Add the default search path to MANPATH on *BSD (2.77 KB, patch)
2015-03-22 08:00 UTC, Ting-Wei Lan 		committed Details | Review

Description Ting-Wei Lan 2015-03-22 07:59:44 UTC 
JHBuild sets MANPATH to tell man to find manuals installed inside a JHBuild prefix, but it also causes man to ignore system directories. A simple command such as 'jhbuild run man ls' fails on *BSD because man doesn't search for directories not specified in MANPATH.

Please see the attached patch.
Comment 1 Ting-Wei Lan 2015-03-22 08:00:48 UTC 
Created attachment 300061 [details] [review]
environment: Add the default search path to MANPATH on *BSD
Comment 2 Frederic Peters 2015-06-14 06:43:24 UTC 
Comment on attachment 300061 [details] [review]
environment: Add the default search path to MANPATH on *BSD

ok.
Comment 3 Ting-Wei Lan 2015-06-14 06:55:48 UTC 
Attachment 300061 [details] pushed as 248cd69 - environment: Add the default search path to MANPATH on *BSD