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Last change on this file since 49a7582 was 316af24d, checked in by Gerard Beekmans <gerard@…>, 22 years ago

updated man patch so it'll format man pages on screens with more than 80 columns

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1<sect2>
2<title>Command explanations</title>
3
4<para><userinput>PATH=$PATH:/usr/bin:/bin ./configure -default</userinput>:
5The paths to some programs get written into man's files. Unfortunately, the
6configure script picks the last location in PATH rather than the first
7where a program is found. By appending /usr/bin:/bin to PATH for the
8./configure command, we make sure that man doesn't use the /static versions
9of our programs.</para>
10
11<para><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../man-&man-patch-version;.patch:</userinput>
12This patch comments out one of the files in the <filename>man.conf</filename>
13file (MANPATH /usr/man) because it will create redundant results when using
14programs like <userinput>whatis</userinput>. It also adds the
15<emphasis>-R</emphasis> option to the <emphasis>PAGER</emphasis> variable so
16man pages are displayed properly. Lastly, the patch fixes the problem where
17man pages are not formatted with more than 80 columns when used with the
18recent groff versions.</para>
19
20</sect2>
21
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