The erlang distribution ships its own man pages, which it expects to be installed in the erlang lib directory (So /usr/lib/erlang/man by default). These are then accessible via "erl -man foo" and the erlang-mode for emacs has ERLANG-MAN-MODULE and ERLANG-MAN-FUNCTION which also look there. The current ebuild installs these in /usr/share/man*erl, but provides no way to get to them (that I can find). The simplest thing, I think, would be to install these where Erlang expects them to be in ERL_LIBDIR/man/man*, since they're not system man-pages, but rather Erlang man-pages (They shouldn't be accessible from man, but should be from "erl -man"). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install dev-lang/erlang 2. erl -man erl Actual Results: $ erl -man erl No manual entry for erl Expected Results: $ erl -man erl ...produces a man page.
On the other hand I cannot reproduce it. Neither with 22.1 nor CVS 22.1.50.
> On the other hand I cannot reproduce it. Neither with 22.1 nor CVS 22.1.50. Sorry, wrong bug. :)(In reply to comment #1)
Moved to the canonical location, though the build system does have an option named --disable-erlang-mandir which does what we do now manually in connection with ERL_MANEXT=erl. Anyway, your proposed fix looks better.
(In reply to comment #0) > The simplest thing, I think, would be to install these where Erlang expects > them to be in ERL_LIBDIR/man/man*, since they're not system man-pages, but > rather Erlang man-pages (They shouldn't be accessible from man, but should be > from "erl -man"). This argument is completely bogus. If something has to be fixed is 'erl -man' to make it look in the proper man directories. Either that, or we add proper entries in /etc/man.conf so man finds those pages too. - ferdy
(In reply to comment #4) > This argument is completely bogus. If something has to be fixed is 'erl -man' > to make it look in the proper man directories. > > Either that, or we add proper entries in /etc/man.conf so man finds those pages > too. They aren't system man pages. 'erl -man' is like ri for ruby, or info for elisp, or pydoc for python. Just because the Erlang/OTP team decided to use the same file format and same sort of display doesn't mean we should put the files in the same place.
(In reply to comment #4) > (In reply to comment #0) > > The simplest thing, I think, would be to install these where Erlang expects > > them to be in ERL_LIBDIR/man/man*, since they're not system man-pages, but > > rather Erlang man-pages (They shouldn't be accessible from man, but should be > > from "erl -man"). > This argument is completely bogus. If something has to be fixed is 'erl -man' > to make it look in the proper man directories. What I could read from upstream's comments in configure and other sources, it's natural place should be ERL_LIBDIR. Although there is a configure option --disable-erlang-mandir which falls back to system standard location. > Either that, or we add proper entries in /etc/man.conf so man finds those pages > too. That's something I would consider.
To make everyone happy, there is now a 90erlang env.d file installed with -r2 which sets MANPATH accordingly. No revision bump as I think it is ridicolous to let people compile it for nearly nothing.
