Does /etc/profile need to set MANPATH?
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Thu May 15 07:56:00 GMT 2014
On May 14 18:52, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen writes:
> > Yes, this might be better discussed in cygwin-apps. I guess the setting
> > of MANPATH is mainly historical.
>
> I'd be happy to not set MANPATH in /etc/profile if we no longer need it
> for the standard installation.
I'm wondering if setting MANPATH was really ever required for the old
man either. In a tcsh environment, MANPATH is not set by default.
If you install the openssl package, MANPATH is set like this (in
/etc/profile.d/openssh.csh):
if ( ! $?MANPATH ) setenv MANPATH ""
setenv MANPATH "${MANPATH}:/usr/ssl/man"
which results in:
$ echo $MANPATH
:/usr/ssl/man
I have neither problems to see the man pages in the default paths nor
problems to see the openssl man pages.
Corinna
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