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meowsqueak
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 Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2004 2:05 am Post subject: Manpages in /usr/share/man/map1p are not displayed |
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I tried 'man getconf' and it returns "No manual entry for getconf". I then tried 'man -K getconf' and eventually this came up:
| Quote: | | /usr/share/man/man1p/getconf.1p.gz? [ynq] |
Selecting 'y' shows the manpage for getconf. Hmmm...
Navigated to /usr/share/man/man1p and yes indeed, getconf.1p.gz is there. Tried a few 'man' operations on other commands shown there. A few others don't work either:
| Quote: | getopts
qrls
qrerun
... and others
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My MANPATH looks like this:
| Code: | $ echo $MANPATH
/usr/share/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.1/man:/usr/qt/3/man:/usr/qt/3/doc/man:/opt/insight/man
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So why doesn't Gentoo include these "Section 1P" man pages in it's index? Is there something I can enable somewhere to include these so that 'man getconf' works properly?
Edit: I have discovered the MANSECT variable. By setting MANSECT=1p I can now 'man getconf'. This highlights a further problem - there are a bunch of man directories that are inaccessible via man without using MANSECT - e.g. man3pm (perl modules). It appears that Gentoo isn't setting MANSECT anywhere so these manpage directories are never searched. Is this a bug? |
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moocha
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| Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2004 3:22 am Post subject: Re: Manpages in /usr/share/man/map1p are not displayed |
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| meowsqueak wrote: | | Edit: I have discovered the MANSECT variable. By setting MANSECT=1p I can now 'man getconf'. This highlights a further problem - there are a bunch of man directories that are inaccessible via man without using MANSECT - e.g. man3pm (perl modules). It appears that Gentoo isn't setting MANSECT anywhere so these manpage directories are never searched. Is this a bug? |
I'd classify it as a bug alright  Please report to Bugzilla.
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