Re: MANPATH not handled correctly

Steve Kargl <sgk_at_troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 05:19:01PM -0800, Simon J. Gerraty wrote:
> > Steve Kargl <sgk_at_troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:
> > 
> > > MANPATH is not handled correctly.  According to the documentation
> > > in apropos(1) and whatis(1):
> > 
> > Can you clarify where you are seeing this documentation?
> > I don't see it in 7.x 10.x or current.
> > 
> 
> This an unaltered FreeBSD-current at r311832.
> 
> The text I quoted can be seen at 
> 
> https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/contrib/mdocml/apropos.1?revision=294113&view=markup
> 

But that isn't the man page that gets installed.

usr.bin/man/apropos.1

is the one that matches apropos(1)

Note, not saying the behavior you describe shouldn't be implemented,
but it does not appear to be the claimed behavior.

> starting at line 346 and ending at 362.
> 
> The Makefile in /usr/src/usr.bin at line 93 points at the 
> directory mandoc.  The Makefile in /usr/src/usr.bin/mandoc
> points at ../../contrib/mdocml.