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Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 17:24:08 +0200
From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <freeweb AT nyckelpiga DOT de>
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To: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: openssl - MANPATH - bug?
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Corinna schrieb:

>> > You've assumed that MANPATH had a previous value.
>> 
>> This is the default file which gets installed with openssl by setup.exe.
>> So if there is no previous value for MANPATH this cannot work.
>> Other application are looking for MANPATH in the environment and don't
>> find other manpages in /usr/man e.g.

> Did you actually try it?  If MANPATH has a leading colon, it's *appended*
> to the internal search path.  If not, it's used exclusivly.

> $ export MANPATH="/usr/ssl/man"
> $ man man
> No manual entry for man
> $ export MANPATH=":/usr/ssl/man"
> $ man man
> [Man page follows]


Hmmm, my script isn't able to benefit from this behaviour.
It looks like this:

if [[ -z $MANPATH ]]; then
    manpath="/usr/local/man /usr/man"
else
    manpath=${MANPATH//:/ }
fi

Then there will be searched in this 'PATH': :/usr/ssl/man
and the man manpage gets not found there.

I'll change it.

>> 
>> > Earnie.
>> 
>> > "Gerrit P. Haase" wrote:
>> >> 
>> >> Hallo,
>> >> 
>> >> This
>> >> $ cat /etc/profile.d/openssl.sh
>> >> export MANPATH="${MANPATH}:/usr/ssl/man"
>> >> 
>> >> results in:
>> >> $ set | grep MANPATH
>> >> MANPATH=:/usr/ssl/man



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