On Nov 26, 2007 9:10 AM, James Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike Gerdts writes: > > > and have this expand to something akin to: > > > > > > man -M /usr/bin/../share/man ps > > > > > > (again, tricky for /usr/ucb which needs to be special cased, if we > > > actually > > > care about that as the man behaviour is currently broken in that case > > > anyway) > > > > This would involve possibly overriding the behavior configured by > > man.cf. Since *Solaris ships with /usr/share/man/man.cf adding this > > functionality only in the absence of man.cf would be pointless. > > Overriding the behavior configured by man.cf just because MANPATH is > > not set seems like a confusing configuration option. > > I would suggest converting (as a special case) "/usr/ucb" in PATH into > "/usr/man,1b" in the generated MANPATH. You don't have to override > man.cf completely, because translating this: > > /usr/ucb:/usr/bin > > to this: > > /usr/man,1b:/usr/man > > works fine and results in the expected man page search path.
I wasn't aware of that syntax for MANPATH. I like it and will be happy to add it in. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
