X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:reply-to:to:from:subject:message-id:date :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s= default; b=ol60pYaqT02jP8R1o69LqjgLfJRg/0t+e6BIrn08e4vsP27LzMidL JwxFHpBoy0UwHla63kIBSZO+co1E8RCIEOQ3cuTy8I/chDBy5mN/fGI89pzYgpYE EaN6uGpR72p/2yAfTjQmjOEzqohHKwEx9GIkEHnOF8Wg3ncahlyMRM= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:reply-to:to:from:subject:message-id:date :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=0eciMiijNy40vOeKq5Lw0eN+OLA=; b=MUs/R2czEbFzKxPuB0udb13o83uA zJSBsBo8RQQXry1qcuDHMh1SxhDd/+K1VS00X5SOFQr4CuRhklFXvYhoLY6g/8Y7 z+wUjyOWFXgf2NuGOEl1oNzXBh9pBNcc17QsU7KMLC1RZkIjR/OwSZSe0P1Y7RVU LsrtCnx0mEu2F2Q= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=Canada, canada, inglis, Inglis X-HELO: smtp-out-no.shaw.ca Reply-To: Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Brian Inglis Subject: How to Setup Multiple System Distro Manpages Openpgp: preference=signencrypt Message-ID: Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2018 14:50:47 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Hi folks, I've installed a few WSL distros for comparison and downloaded a bunch of other manpage sets and unpacked them: $ l src/man/*[0-9].tar.gz src/man/CentOS_7.1.tar.gz src/man/NetBSD_7.1.tar.gz src/man/Darwin_7.0.1.tar.gz src/man/OpenBSD_6.2.tar.gz src/man/Debian_8.1.0.tar.gz src/man/Red_Hat_Linux_i386_9.tar.gz src/man/FreeBSD_12.tar.gz src/man/SunOS_5.10.tar.gz src/man/FreeBSD_Ports_11.1.tar.gz src/man/SuSE_Linux_i386_11.3.tar.gz src/man/HP-UX_11.22.tar.gz src/man/X11_R7.4.tar.gz $ l /proc/cygdrive/c/usr/local/share/man/ cat1/ debian@ man1p/ mann/ SunOS-5.10/ cat3/ Debian-8.1.0/ man2/ netbsd@ suse@ cat5/ freebsd@ man3/ NetBSD-7.1/ SuSE-11.3/ cat7/ FreeBSD-12-current/ man3p/ openbsd@ ubuntu@ cat8/ FreeBSD-ports-11.1-RELEASE/ man4/ OpenBSD-6.2/ x@ centos@ hpux@ man5/ ports@ X11R7.4/ CentOS-7.1/ HP-UX-11.22/ man6/ redhat@ darwin@ man0p/ man7/ RedHat-9-i386/ Darwin-7.0.1/ man1/ man8/ solaris@ but despite reading docs, adding links and changing configs, I'm unable to get man/-db to access these with or without the -m system switch. I know I must be missing some essential point, but searching has not come up with anything to help me fix this. Has anyone here set this up and can suggest an approach that will work? -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple