From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 68926 invoked by alias); 15 Jul 2018 06:39:55 -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 68646 invoked by uid 89); 15 Jul 2018 06:39:12 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_ENVFROM_END_DIGIT,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=H*Ad:D*mail.com, Hx-languages-length:1500, answers X-HELO: mout.gmx.com Received: from mout.gmx.com (HELO mout.gmx.com) (74.208.4.201) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sun, 15 Jul 2018 06:39:11 +0000 Received: from johndoe65534.mail.com ([85.28.70.154]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmxus001 [74.208.5.15]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0M9rmo-1fl9CS3vce-00B4XI for ; Sun, 15 Jul 2018 08:39:05 +0200 Subject: Re: How to Setup Multiple System Distro Manpages To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: From: john doe Message-ID: Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2018 07:21:00 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2018-07/txt/msg00145.txt.bz2 On 7/14/2018 10:50 PM, Brian Inglis wrote: > Hi folks, > I've installed a few WSL distros for comparison and downloaded a bunch of other > manpage sets and unpacked them: > $ l src/man/*[0-9].tar.gz > src/man/CentOS_7.1.tar.gz src/man/NetBSD_7.1.tar.gz > src/man/Darwin_7.0.1.tar.gz src/man/OpenBSD_6.2.tar.gz > src/man/Debian_8.1.0.tar.gz src/man/Red_Hat_Linux_i386_9.tar.gz > src/man/FreeBSD_12.tar.gz src/man/SunOS_5.10.tar.gz > src/man/FreeBSD_Ports_11.1.tar.gz src/man/SuSE_Linux_i386_11.3.tar.gz > src/man/HP-UX_11.22.tar.gz src/man/X11_R7.4.tar.gz > > $ 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... -- John Doe -- 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