Re: How command "manpath" works?
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 02:51:35PM +0800, Zhao You Bing wrote:
> I downloaded j2sdk from SUN and extracted it to /usr/local
> and I found the /usr/local/j2sdk/man is in the list of command "manpath"
>
> But I haven't set manpath manully and it's not listed in /etc/manpath.config
If you haven't set $MANPATH manually, then man and friends guess it
based on the value of $PATH. From get_manpath() in the source (and read
/etc/manpath.config for man_db.config here):
/*
* For each directory in the user's path, see if it is one of the
* directories listed in the man_db.config file. If so, and it is
* not already in the manpath, add it. If the directory is not listed
* in the man_db.config file, see if there is a subdirectory `../man' or
* `man'. If so, and it is not already in the manpath, add it.
* Example: user has $HOME/bin in his path and the directory
* $HOME/man exists -- the directory $HOME/man will be added
* to the manpath.
*/
> I'm wondering how manpath works, who can give me a hint or tell me in
> which package I can found the source code of "manpath" so I can check it
> myself?
man-db. (I'm the maintainer.)
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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