[X-Unix] 10.4: manpath seems not to be working properly

[Kevin Stevens]

On Tue, 17 May 2005, Jason Verlander wrote:

> Incidentally the -w parameter is not recognized by whatever version
> of makewhatis I have installed though its man page makes mention of
> it as an available switch.
> Runing strings on the makewhatis binary returns this line:
>
> $FreeBSD: src/usr.bin/makewhatis/makewhatis.c,v 1.9 2002/09/04
> 23:29:04 dwmalone Exp $
>
> I'm not sure if a clean 10.4 install uses a newer version of this
> tool. Running it with no parameters set seems to work though.

Same from my clean install:
$FreeBSD: src/usr.bin/makewhatis/makewhatis.c,
v 1.9 2002/09/04 23:29:04

I guess Apple still hasn't cleaned up the man pages, this has been a
source of frustration for four years now.

KeS