Re: `man` cannot find any entry

[J C <jcurt312%gmail.com@localhost>]

Ah thanks for pointing it out! It turns out to be a portability issue
- in FreeBSD[1] it works because `man`'s behavior of using MANPATH is
different. It allows a prefix/post colon to append/prepend the default
man path. However this is not the case in NetBSD. It also somehow
works in Linux, but I don't know the exact reason that it works.

It seems difficult to come with up a cross-platform solution to add
user customized manpath...


[1]: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?man(1)

On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 9:22 PM Robert Elz <kre%munnari.oz.au@localhost> wrote:
>
>     Date:        Thu, 13 May 2021 15:29:25 -0700
>     From:        J C <jcurt312%gmail.com@localhost>
>     Message-ID:  <CACp_ZA3-YVR7LOMAcOT4Nc-8UqrjY44vxDece_HM8U5Bmt3NUw%mail.gmail.com@localhost>
>
>   | Any idea how I can fix this?
>
> unset MANPATH
>
> Then find where it is being set, and
> make that stop happening.
>
> Use of MANPATH is for unusual situations,
> it should not normally be required.
>
> kre