This semi-colon should be a colon, I guess. Recent man ebuild emerge started causing cron barf. Looks like an obvious typo; havent evaluated the program logic at all. Probably should be pushed upstream: Patch also attached; Paul --- makewhatis.orig.1 2003-03-19 00:43:45.000000000 -0500 +++ makewhatis 2003-03-19 00:41:41.000000000 -0500 @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ if [ x$dc = x ]; then dc=$d; else dc=$dc:$d; fi fi done -DEFCATPATH=$dc;$DEFMANPATH +DEFCATPATH=$dc:$DEFMANPATH # In case /usr is read-only, make /usr/man/whatis (etc) a symlink to # something like /var/cache/man/whatis.
Created attachment 9586 [details, diff] makewhatis patch
Changing the semi-colon to a colon does indeed fix the bug.
fixed with man-1.5l-r1 thx
Hi; I find I need this patch to make the -s option work. Probably Im the only one is in the world that uses it:) eg. /usr/sbin/makewhatis -u -s "1 2 4 5 6 7" /usr/X11R6/man (I cut out section 3, because its too full of tons of perl/tk/X, etc. crap) --- makewhatis.orig.1 2003-03-19 00:43:45.000000000 -0500 +++ makewhatis 2003-03-20 00:49:47.000000000 -0500 @@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ sections="1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 n l" -for name in $* +for name in "$@" do if [ -n "$setsections" ]; then setsections= Without this change, the arg parsing thinks you only want section 1, then interprets the '2' as a manpath to check, and craps out. In other words, "1 2 4 5 6 7" doesnt get parsed as a single argument to -s, but as a bunch of separate arguments. Paul
Created attachment 9627 [details, diff] larger patch to makewhatis This combines the first patch with my new one. It seems to work here, and allows -s option, but obviously it should be verified...
