MANPATH not handled correctly
Simon J. Gerraty
sjg at juniper.net
Tue Jan 10 06:32:12 UTC 2017
Steve Kargl <sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 05:19:01PM -0800, Simon J. Gerraty wrote:
> > Steve Kargl <sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:
> >
> > > MANPATH is not handled correctly. According to the documentation
> > > in apropos(1) and whatis(1):
> >
> > Can you clarify where you are seeing this documentation?
> > I don't see it in 7.x 10.x or current.
> >
>
> This an unaltered FreeBSD-current at r311832.
>
> The text I quoted can be seen at
>
> https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/contrib/mdocml/apropos.1?revision=294113&view=markup
>
But that isn't the man page that gets installed.
usr.bin/man/apropos.1
is the one that matches apropos(1)
Note, not saying the behavior you describe shouldn't be implemented,
but it does not appear to be the claimed behavior.
> starting at line 346 and ending at 362.
>
> The Makefile in /usr/src/usr.bin at line 93 points at the
> directory mandoc. The Makefile in /usr/src/usr.bin/mandoc
> points at ../../contrib/mdocml.
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