On 2018-07-14 16:40, Jack wrote: > 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? >> > Purely a guess on my part, but should those directories all start with "man" > (or > "cat") ? >From docs I have checked, man is the default name for the current system e.g. man -m man, and freebsd, debian, etc. should be at the same level, with man?, cat?, xx_XX, directories below that, so I have linked and moved them up and down the hierarchy, modified /etc/man_db.conf to match, rerun mandb, and tried using "man -m freebsd ...", etc. without any success as far as I can tell. I have other system man and cat directories in my MANPATH at various levels above and under Cygwin, and can access those manpages, just not the alternative systems. I am sure I must have missed something unobvious in the docs, and noticed nothing about this in the books, which I have checked. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada -- 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
