RE: [gentoo-dev] man fails under tcsh

[Martin Schlemmer]

On Fri, 2001-09-28 at 14:24, Crowfoot, Norman (CCI-Atlanta) wrote:
> Man fails under csh/tcsh due to lack of PAGER setting in /etc/man.conf
>
> Standard man ebuild forces a pre-built /etc/man.conf with PAGER left
> blank.  This confuses csh/tcsh when parsing the internally-constructed
> shell command, since an null string appears after the last "|" in the
> command string.
>
> The man problem under tcsh is the lack of definition for a "pager."  The
> answer is to define the PAGER option in /etc/man.conf.  And the reason
> the PAGER line is not filled in is the /etc/man.conf is overwritten by
> /usr/portage/sys-apps/man/files/man.conf at the last minute during the
> process!  In other words, all the world of building the conf in man is
> blown out by the ebuild ....  The fix?  Comment out the install:
>
> 	#doins ${FILESDIR}/man.conf
>
> and use the man.conf file that man creates.
>
> Other option is to edit man.conf to
>
> 	PAGER	 less -is
>
> or equivalent.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom von Schwerdtner [mailto:tvon@×××××.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 2:59 PM
> To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××.org
> Cc: Crowfoot, Norman (CCI-Atlanta)
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] man fails under tcsh
>
>
> > man breaks when the login shell is csh or tcsh . . .
>
> can you be more specific?  man works fine for me.
>
> Also, there seems to be a tcsh bug in which it tries to parse LS_COLORS
> or
> somethign related.  Attempting to login to bash and then invoke tcsh
> fails
> with "unknown colorls variable: 'do'" (off the top of my head).  I dont
> know much about this, but whomever is maintaining the tcsh ebuild may
> want
> to look deeper.
>
> -T
>
Hi

What Gentoo Linux are you running?  PAGER is a env setting that each
user should customize, but in RC6, it is set in /etc/env.d/00basic.


Greetings,
  MS
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Martin Schlemmer
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team Developer
Cape Town, South Africa