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