[X-Unix] missing man pages

[Xavier Noria]

On Jan 5, 2004, at 12:51 AM, Stroller wrote:

> On Jan 4, 2004, at 9:43 pm, Xavier Noria wrote:
>
>> Although whatis perror reports perror(3), man perror does not find  
>> any man page, and in fact there is none under /usr/share/man/man3. Do  
>> you know what could be wrong?
>
> On my Panthar system `man perror` brings up:

Yeah, this is Panther as well, upgraded from Jaguar.

>
> STRERROR(3)              BSD Library Functions Manual               
> STRERROR(3)
>
> NAME
>      perror, strerror, strerror_r, sys_errlist, sys_nerr - system  
> error mes-
>      sages
> Maybe you should try running `/usr/libexec/makewhatis` & trying  
> again..?

No luck. It complained about some missing files (output attached below)  
and after running it man perror does not work, and whatis perror keeps  
on reporting perror(3).

There is no man page for strerror either, though curiously strerror_r  
is there:

fxn at conway:~% locate strerror
/System/Library/Perl/5.8.1/darwin-thread-multi-2level/auto/POSIX/ 
strerror.al
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.2/darwin-thread-multi-2level/auto/POSIX/ 
strerror.al
/usr/share/man/man3/strerror_r.3
fxn at conway:~%

I am a bit lost, I don't know why this is incomplete, and how to fix it.

-- fxn

fxn at conway:~% sudo /usr/libexec/makewhatis
Password:
Cannot find file: /usr/share/man/man3/HMAC.3ssl
Cannot find file: /usr/share/man/man3/HMAC_cleanup.3ssl
Cannot find file: /usr/share/man/man3/HMAC_Final.3ssl
Cannot find file: /usr/share/man/man3/HMAC_Init.3ssl
Cannot find file: /usr/share/man/man3/HMAC_Update.3ssl
Cannot find file: /usr/share/man/man3/MD2.3ssl
Cannot find file: /usr/share/man/man3/MD2_Final.3ssl
Cannot find file: /usr/share/man/man3/MD2_Init.3ssl
Cannot find file: /usr/share/man/man3/MD2_Update.3ssl
Cannot find file: /usr/share/man/man3/MD4.3ssl
Cannot find file: /usr/share/man/man3/MD4_Final.3ssl
Cannot find file: /usr/share/man/man3/MD4_Init.3ssl
Cannot find file: /usr/share/man/man3/MD4_Update.3ssl
Cannot find file: /usr/share/man/man3/MD5.3ssl
Cannot find file: /usr/share/man/man3/MD5_Final.3ssl
Cannot find file: /usr/share/man/man3/MD5_Init.3ssl
Cannot find file: /usr/share/man/man3/MD5_Update.3ssl
Cannot find file: /usr/share/man/man3/MDC2.3ssl
Cannot find file: /usr/share/man/man3/MDC2_Final.3ssl
Cannot find file: /usr/share/man/man3/MDC2_Init.3ssl
Cannot find file: /usr/share/man/man3/MDC2_Update.3ssl
Cannot find file: /usr/share/man/man3/PEM.3ssl
Cannot find file: /usr/share/man/man3/RC4.3ssl
Cannot find file: /usr/share/man/man3/RC4_set_key.3ssl
Cannot find file: /usr/share/man/man3/SSL.3ssl