[gentoo-user] GCC man page

[gentoo-user] GCC man page

[Mitchell Dorrell]

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On my system, "man gcc" works fine, but "man -k gcc" results in "gcc:
nothing appropriate.".

It looks like there are two implementations, so I'll note that virtual/man
is currently being satisfied by sys-apps/man-db.

Before I list everything I've already checked and tried, does anyone
immediately recognize this issue? Can anyone else reproduce it?

I'll preempt one obvious suggestion:
$ ls -l /var/cache/man/index.db
-rw-r--r-- 1 man man 2666496 Oct 31 18:45 /var/cache/man/index.db

Thanks all,
-MD

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Re: [gentoo-user] GCC man page

[Eli Schwartz]

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On 10/31/24 6:56 PM, Mitchell Dorrell wrote:
> On my system, "man gcc" works fine, but "man -k gcc" results in "gcc:
> nothing appropriate.".
> 
> It looks like there are two implementations, so I'll note that virtual/man
> is currently being satisfied by sys-apps/man-db.
> 
> Before I list everything I've already checked and tried, does anyone
> immediately recognize this issue? Can anyone else reproduce it?


It may be related to Gentoo's unusual use of $MANPATH to hide slotted
manpages outside of /usr/share/man


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Eli Schwartz

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Re: [gentoo-user] GCC man page

[Mitchell Dorrell]

On Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 7:12 PM Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> On 10/31/24 6:56 PM, Mitchell Dorrell wrote:
> > On my system, "man gcc" works fine, but "man -k gcc" results in "gcc:
> > nothing appropriate.".
>
> It may be related to Gentoo's unusual use of $MANPATH to hide slotted
> manpages outside of /usr/share/man
>
> --
> Eli Schwartz

Were you able to reproduce it?

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC man page

[ralfconn]

Il 01/11/24 02:31, Mitchell Dorrell ha scritto:
> On Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 7:12 PM Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 10/31/24 6:56 PM, Mitchell Dorrell wrote:
>>> On my system, "man gcc" works fine, but "man -k gcc" results in "gcc:
>>> nothing appropriate.".
>>
>> It may be related to Gentoo's unusual use of $MANPATH to hide slotted
>> manpages outside of /usr/share/man
>>
>> --
>> Eli Schwartz
> 
> Were you able to reproduce it?
> 

yes

raf