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Another (differently) broken man on CygWin 1.5.8


'info' works, 'man' fails with this error:

$ man cat
/usr/local/lib/man.config: No such file or directory
Warning: cannot open configuration file /usr/local/lib/man.config
No manual entry for cat

I have tried figuring out man.config with no success (*see below).

Cygwin DLL version info:  DLL version: 1.5.18
GNU bash, version 3.00.16(11)-release (i686-pc-cygwin)
Microsoft Windows [Version 5.2.3790]

* Trying to figure out man.conf I didn't find the file
in in the path above; I re-rean man.sh.done but it create
man.conf in a different path /usr/share/misc/man.conf

$ /etc/postinstall/man.sh.done
Using the default version of /usr/share/misc/man.conf
(/etc/defaults/usr/share/misc/man.conf)

And man still failed with same error, so I tried copying
that file to /usr/local/lib/man.config:

$ cp /usr/share/misc/man.conf /usr/local/lib/man.config
(and even to man.conf) but it still gave the same error:

$ man man
/usr/local/lib/man.config: No such file or directory
Warning: cannot open configuration file /usr/local/lib/man.config
No manual entry for man

I have a clean "setup" and reboot from a couple of days ago,
but this problem has persisted across several such updates.

The only reason it is tolerable (for a newbie) is that "info"
works.

manpath is a symlink to man and gives this:

$ manpath
/usr/local/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/usr/ssl/man:/usr/X11R
6/share/man

$ cygcheck -s | egrep "\bman\b"
man                     1.5p-1
xfig-man                3.2.4-2
XFree86-man             4.3.0-10
xorg-x11-man-pages      6.8.2.0-1
xorg-x11-man-pages-html 6.8.2.0-1

--
Herb Martin


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