On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 11:02:43PM +0000, Darren Kenny wrote: > The ARC case: > > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/arc/caselog/2007/688/ > > attempts to deal with this by handling the case where if MANPATH is not set, > it > will derive the location of the manpage for a command from where it was found > in > your PATH. > > Does this resolve you problem? Unfortunately I don't know if this has been > integrated yet, but I've CC-ed the case submitter to see if he would know...
Thanks for the quick response. No, MANPATH is a secondary problem. The primary one is that several directories are missing from the default PATH. If somebody types `gcc hello.c' or `cc hello.c' and gets the response `ksh: gcc: not found', his first response is to go looking for a copy of gcc to install. This is in spite of the fact that a perfectly good compiler is already installed in /usr/sfw/bin/gcc or /opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc. It's compounded by the fact that a great deal of Solaris information on the web states that a whole bunch of software must be installed on Solaris to make it usable. This isn't true in the case of Solaris 10 and Opensolaris, but the old information still persists. -- -Gary Mills- -Unix Support- -U of M Academic Computing and Networking-
