From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23284 invoked by alias); 6 Aug 2017 19:20:13 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@zsh.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes List-Id: Zsh Users List List-Post: List-Help: X-Seq: 22795 Received: (qmail 23476 invoked by uid 1010); 6 Aug 2017 19:20:12 -0000 X-Qmail-Scanner-Diagnostics: from mail-wm0-f42.google.com by f.primenet.com.au (envelope-from , uid 7791) with qmail-scanner-2.11 (clamdscan: 0.99.2/21882. spamassassin: 3.4.1. Clear:RC:0(74.125.82.42):SA:0(1.0/5.0):. Processed in 1.135188 secs); 06 Aug 2017 19:20:12 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.0 required=5.0 tests=FREEMAIL_FROM,FREEMAIL_REPLYTO, HTML_MESSAGE,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3,RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL,SPF_PASS, T_DKIM_INVALID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.1 X-Envelope-From: linux.tech.guy@gmail.com X-Qmail-Scanner-Mime-Attachments: | X-Qmail-Scanner-Zip-Files: | DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:reply-to:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id :subject:to; bh=7AsB64lakV47pth2CsMPf5+9st9UoNyP9KCO79uJnNU=; b=Vt3Ay7giL/MAr/mU0NHzpM+51WSVDGs8EbVYeviOFUfo5bLTeJnuLU11w6TuXWYnTX vnHmPjUaulkxMe3qfVgGVcFhUKtqjvuRXiZshzZfa+wvsH5Nal6yWoDds5UKniMMdhp0 BxFGGxtCDNbDItdjgoMd7PXhdGEvO0soPLjc/3GuGiL2YMg4vQT7xNGpO0O7nnSfhPMr QcTNlbnBD8+dC8/yGNb0lNSnk1dMu7eJrXpud5peh98FMJP4wzDaNhv4CNWO3yee+QlU pGnSTRWPVtk22U8lTNVkVwAzFSjuft+cH3R3w1Lv/h0WGl9GP30SFFue7mVV1jvVm71s 4d0g== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:reply-to:in-reply-to:references :from:date:message-id:subject:to; bh=7AsB64lakV47pth2CsMPf5+9st9UoNyP9KCO79uJnNU=; b=tRt6UQqXM5OPUkarBPpgrNh2tGakKxxGC1MMNKeME8da6hySTV5PeRRkqHGqFOwVS6 wURhpv6zCUymq091QGxGftD1aQEKPODLOhV0id9DJHV7Drq7dido4j8iBxF9C2WvldV4 T5AwruC0NwlDhXPLm4xQlY+LnvCVq7NcUncbdrKx6NX4xwWNFbATTdayq3Vmr1lqhkDO F+bL7tRvXq7utRCUrTQJpvtPoQQtv0xhBA+YeFTr7JlGqSlBa8ntIDdgO3IDZV6h8Npl rjqRQBMtdh5jW2xgVnPpB7divqbfdfgrfFvMOwN3wj9diztfro8GeNfTSDs37e1QZir8 o5WQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AIVw111k9pM1wG2epitfbTCf5xH0cuIarrb4pPi2LpKwSZ9nDezptlW+ /PAo7MFKa3KMgqOZVLQLVQNvzAO0kA== X-Received: by 10.80.131.135 with SMTP id 7mr9375579edi.35.1502047207732; Sun, 06 Aug 2017 12:20:07 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: linuxtechguy@gmail.com In-Reply-To: References: From: Jim Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2017 14:20:07 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Does mandir get saved some place? To: zsh-users@zsh.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="94eb2c0d99d240b90e05561a9ed7" --94eb2c0d99d240b90e05561a9ed7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Bart, On Sun, Aug 6, 2017 at 6:02 AM, Bart Schaefer wrote: > On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 8:01 AM, Jim wrote: > > > > With the fact that the configure script has the option "mandir= dir>" > > I assumed(bad thing to do) that there would be an easy way to discover > > where the man pages were saved. > > Ah, well, the purpose of the configure option is so you can tell "make > install" to put the manual pages in a place that's already in your > $MANPATH. It's not intended to change the shell to know about some > new location. > > Understand. Wasn't looking at it from that point of view. > > would it be unreasonable to ask that a variable like "mandir" be set with > > the path to those man pages? > > It wouldn't be unreasonable to ask, but I wouldn't promise an > affirmative response. > In light of that, a rethink is in in order. The one thing that still bothers me is that if you just use the defaults when building multiple versions the man pages are overwritten. Without a rebuild there is currently no way, that I can see, to get a specific version of the man pages back without a rebuild. Reminds me of the saying, "If it hurts, don't do it". But it does hurts anyone who is not aware of this. Not sure there is an easy answer. Zsh is version "wise", so it doesn't seem unreasonable to have the man pages do the same(like ${prefix}/share/zsh/{version}/man) It would take the guesswork out of where the man pages are and make it easier to set MANPATH when changing versions. This can be done with the --mandir option and a few lines in .zshrc. The default man pages would be whatever version of zsh your distribution has installed. But most distributions are behind the current version, which started me down this rode in the first place. :-( As long as things are under my *own* control, this will work. Thanks for responding and listening, Jim --94eb2c0d99d240b90e05561a9ed7--