On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 10:26:16PM -0800, Simon J. Gerraty wrote: > 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. > Well, yes, it is the manpage that gets installed. > usr.bin/man/apropos.1 > > is the one that matches apropos(1) > >From src/usr.bin/man/Makefile .if ${MK_MANDOCDB} == no LINKS+= ${BINDIR}/man ${BINDIR}/apropos \ ${BINDIR}/man ${BINDIR}/whatis MAN+= apropos.1 MLINKS= apropos.1 whatis.1 .endif I have not set or unset MK_MANDOCDB. From src.opt.mk __DEFAULT_YES_OPTIONS = \ ... MANDOCDB \ ... % svn blame src.opts.mk | grep MANDOC 283777 bapt MANDOCDB \ % svn log -r 283777 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ r283777 | bapt | 2015-05-30 10:41:37 -0700 (Sat, 30 May 2015) | 11 lines Switch to mandoc's version of makewhatis(8), whatis(1), apropos(1) utilities. This change among other things improve search capabilities over the manpages allowing fine grain query. A new build option WITHOUT_MANDOCDB has been added to keep the ancient version of the database and the tools. The plan is to entirely remove this option before 11.0-RELEASE. Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2603 -- Steve 20161221 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbCHE-hONowReceived on Tue Jan 10 2017 - 05:59:19 UTC
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