[13238] in Athena Bugs
sun4 7.7Q: add / $initdir/cshrc (manpath)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Tauriello)
Tue Feb 21 23:26:27 1995
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 1995 23:26:21 EST
From: "Richard Tauriello" <rptaurie@MIT.EDU>
System name: w20-575-6 (actually m16-034-26, apparently)
Type and version: SPARC/Classic 7.7Q (which is also a sun)
Display type: cgthree
What were you trying to do?
This didn't actually happen to me, since I set MANPATH more
explicitly, but someone was complaining on -i help that they add'ed
lockers in .environment, but their MANPATH ended up being just
the default /usr/athena/man:/usr/openwin/man:/usr/man
What's wrong:
grep'ing for athena_manpath in $initdir, it looks like $initdir/cshrc
does "setenv MANPATH $athena_manpath" *before* sourcing .environment.
Then when add is called in .environment, it's the version with the -e
option that modifies $athena_path and $athena_manpath, but $athena_manpath
is never referred to again.
What should have happened:
athena_manpath should be handled more like athena_path is, I suppose.
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