Re: xman - Not showing X man pages?

[Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Igor,

Thanks.  Just uploaded XFree86-man-4.3.0-2.  It will be nice to have 
this working finally.  Any other rough edges that Cygwin/XFree86 has 
that I am blissfully unaware of?

Harold

Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
>
>
> > xman doesn't list X man pages.  Yet, /etc/man.config seems to imply that
> > /usr/X11R6/bin is in the MANPATH, but running 'set' shows that this is
> > not the case.  Does man.config get read only by man, not xman?  Does
> > xman look only at the MANPATH environment variable?
>
>
> According to the xman man page, that is the case.
>
>
> > If xman only looks at the MANPATH environment variable, then do we need
> > to add /usr/X11R6/man to MANPATH via a script in /etc/profile.d?  I
> > manually added /usr/X11R6/man to the MANPATH and got xman to start
> > showing the X man pages, which leads me to believe that this would be
> > the correct solution.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any feedback,
> > Harold
>
>
> Exactly.  Preferably, this script should be added in the package that
> contains the X manpages (XFree86-man, I believe).  Or you can reuse the
> 00xfree.sh that's already there (from the XFree86-bin package, I think).
> 	Igor