From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 33031 invoked by alias); 15 Jul 2018 07:21:54 -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 33023 invoked by uid 89); 15 Jul 2018 07:21:53 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=2018-07-15, Hx-languages-length:1781 X-HELO: smtp-out-no.shaw.ca Received: from smtp-out-no.shaw.ca (HELO smtp-out-no.shaw.ca) (64.59.134.13) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sun, 15 Jul 2018 07:21:52 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.100] ([24.64.240.204]) by shaw.ca with ESMTP id ebLpfxT4gWppDebLqfeZMF; Sun, 15 Jul 2018 01:21:50 -0600 Reply-To: Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca Subject: Re: How to Setup Multiple System Distro Manpages To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: From: Brian Inglis Openpgp: preference=signencrypt Message-ID: Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2018 13:23:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2018-07/txt/msg00148.txt.bz2 On 2018-07-15 00:39, john doe wrote: > On 7/14/2018 10:50 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? > In addition to the other answers; maybe exporting those directories in the > 'PATH' env variable... I already tried listing them all at the end of man-db.conf and MANPATH. -- 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