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| From: | Chris J. Breisch |
| Subject: | [Man-db-devel] MANPATH issues with tests |
| Date: | Mon, 19 May 2014 13:37:05 -0400 |
| User-agent: | Postbox 3.0.9 (Windows/20140128) |
Greetings,I've been attempting to port man-db to Cygwin (and bothering Colin about it), and I ran into an issue which I believe is not Cygwin related.
When building from scratch, having MANPATH set to anything causes the "man-9" test to fail during "make check"
In addition, depending on the value of MANPATH, the test "man-6" may fail as well. I have researched and duplicated the first issue on an LFS system, which is where I discovered the second issue. I have not done any research into the second.
It appears to me from doing a little debugging that if MANPATH is set, that any manpath directories in the conf file are ignored. This causes the "man-9" test failure.
For now I just unset MANPATH in both the man-9 and the man-6 tests, but this appears to be an actual bug, if I understand the MANPATH behavior correctly.
-- Chris J. Breisch
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