X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT 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:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=qFGLNrUplSGSxTiQ Q8aoq6ewTzdx7eD9L7oluNERJ3jQi0I3fPqXXEdFKiJcWV2ygnKGlu6P7L6jV11R RqJSldNNVXkddzwXUwMvHO751gB+vwKc/nJt/hK50v54ZZ4dSbMqat6VBT9/pq4G XngcC5r4yMygNg5hgmf/kmeHJAg= 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:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=dF3h0WRcsThGn4v1YYv3jz rdZZ4=; b=uB4GhM2zloRrwKStmnf+L2gWYnKrGTzIAfb4NDTqsvatQwLHQBt9GI BoK8+UApsXKN/KVK8mma475GUcgg7rw8kz3p3LPaIloi6Gc91imOzNfkQtvKfffo 4Bktb9NjOpVg50sFOcFCVn9PgwaC4+dEe15QMRozSnldMX6epvgxU= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=Hx-languages-length:1652, HContent-Transfer-Encoding:8bit X-HELO: mout.kundenserver.de Subject: Re: How to Setup Multiple System Distro Manpages To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <966e8dcd-87c5-ce2f-f80c-98c8dcda570c AT aya DOT yale DOT edu> <99bd3ae9-663b-1cfa-f918-0b1f12926acc AT SystematicSw DOT ab DOT ca> From: Thomas Wolff Message-ID: <8889a576-a519-9539-76a1-09fb631d7807@towo.net> Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2018 06:32:21 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <99bd3ae9-663b-1cfa-f918-0b1f12926acc@SystematicSw.ab.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Note-from-DJ: This may be spam >> On 07/14/2018 04:50 PM, Brian Inglis wrote: >>> I've installed a few WSL distros for comparison and downloaded a bunch of other >>> manpage sets and unpacked them: >>> $ 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? Works fine for me, in the usual place however, not using /usr/local: /usr/share/man/alt/man1/foo.1 man -m alt foo -- 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