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Date:      Mon, 9 Jan 2017 22:26:16 -0800
From:      "Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg@juniper.net>
To:        <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
Cc:        <freebsd-doc@freebsd.org>, <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, <sjg@juniper.net>
Subject:   Re: MANPATH not handled correctly
Message-ID:  <85392.1484029576@kaos.jnpr.net>
In-Reply-To: <20170110015413.GA17884@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
References:  <20170108192633.GA42537@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <78804.1484011141@kaos.jnpr.net> <20170110015413.GA17884@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>

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Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 05:19:01PM -0800, Simon J. Gerraty wrote:
> > Steve Kargl <sgk@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=3D=
294113&view=3Dmarkup
> =


But that isn't the man page that gets installed.

usr.bin/man/apropos.1

is the one that matches apropos(1)

Note, not saying the behavior you describe shouldn't be implemented,
but it does not appear to be the claimed behavior.

> starting at line 346 and ending at 362.
> =

> The Makefile in /usr/src/usr.bin at line 93 points at the =

> directory mandoc.  The Makefile in /usr/src/usr.bin/mandoc
> points at ../../contrib/mdocml.



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