Re: man path problems

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org>]

On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 13:53:44 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> I'd need to see the output of 'man -adw java' to be sure. I suspect it
> is not as simple an error as you think, though, because 'man' uses the
> same code to determine manual page paths as 'manpath' does.

You're right, even with MANPATH (exported) set to

/home/lefevre/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/usr/local/j2sdk1.3.1/man

I get:

$ man -aw java
/usr/local/j2sdk1.3.1/man/man1/java.1.gz 
/usr/share/man/man1/kaffe.1.gz /var/cache/man/cat1/kaffe.1.gz 

But I should have got '/usr/share/man/man1/kaffe.1.gz' before
'/usr/local/j2sdk1.3.1/man/man1/java.1.gz'.

FYI, I currently have the symlinks:
/usr/share/man/man1/java.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/java.1.gz
/etc/alternatives/java.1.gz -> /usr/share/man/man1/kaffe.1.gz

Do you still need the output of 'man -adw java'?

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