From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 40267 invoked by alias); 20 Jul 2015 12:09:41 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 40259 invoked by uid 89); 20 Jul 2015 12:09:41 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_40,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: smtp46.i.mail.ru Received: from smtp46.i.mail.ru (HELO smtp46.i.mail.ru) (94.100.177.106) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Mon, 20 Jul 2015 12:09:39 +0000 Received: from ppp16-202.pppoe.mtu-net.ru ([81.195.16.202]:49980 helo=U250) by smtp46.i.mail.ru with esmtpa (envelope-from ) id 1ZH9t0-0005ge-UG for cygwin@cygwin.com; Mon, 20 Jul 2015 15:09:35 +0300 Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 12:09:00 -0000 From: Mikhail Usenko To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Does /etc/profile need to set MANPATH? Message-Id: <20150720150931.0abb13b1b3c771215ade21e1@inbox.ru> In-Reply-To: <871tvsajhx.fsf@Rainer.invalid> References: <53726A51.3010105@breisch.org> <20140513192457.GY2436@calimero.vinschen.de> <8738gc4810.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <20140515074942.GK2436@calimero.vinschen.de> <5374BCE5.7080609@breisch.org> <5374BE7D.70104@breisch.org> <20140515133939.GQ2436@calimero.vinschen.de> <5374FDCA.2020700@cygwin.com> <20140516113710.GE430@calimero.vinschen.de> <871tvsajhx.fsf@Rainer.invalid> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-07/txt/msg00302.txt.bz2 On Sat, 17 May 2014 10:37:30 +0200 Achim Gratz <...> wrote: > Corinna Vinschen writes: > > Whatever, it looks like MANPATH can really go away. Achim, do your worst. > > Done. > Besides defining MANPATH (and the other variables such as INFOPATH and PATH which can be modified by the user's .bash_profile) /etc/profile also did export the MANPATH variable. Now it does not and I suppose that user's skeleton file /etc/skel/.bash_profile should provide user-defined MANPATH pro-forma as an exported environment variable or else it will have no effect. -- Mike -- 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