>Number:         8977
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       makewhatis fails with non-numerical sections
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    bin-bug-people (Utility Bug People)
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Dec  9 10:30:00 1999
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Thilo Manske
>Organization:
Dies ist Thilos Unix Signature! Viel Spass damit.
>Release:        NetBSD-current since addition of the C-version of makewhatis
>Environment:
	
System: NetBSD WintelKiller 1.4P NetBSD 1.4P (WintelKiller) #176: Fri Dec 3 00:46:22 MET 1999 thilo@WintelKiller:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/WintelKiller i386


>Description:
Some software packages come with manpages stored in manl or mann,
e.g. postgresql or tcl and tk.

It's even in /etc/man.conf:

# Specific section/directory combinations.
[...]
l               /usr/{X11R6,X11,pkg,local}/man/{cat,man}l
n               /usr/{X11R6,X11,pkg,local}/man/{cat,man}n

But makewhatis can't process those directories, because the sections are
non-numerical:

...
int
manpagesection(char *name)
{
        char    *ptr;
        if ((ptr = strrchr(name, '/')) != NULL)
                ptr++;
        else
                ptr = name;
        while ((ptr = strchr(ptr, '.')) != NULL)
                if (isdigit(*++ptr))
                        return (int)(*ptr - '0');
        return -1;
}
...

>How-To-Repeat:
E.g.:
Install pkgsrc/databases/postgresql

ll <LOCALBASE>/pgsql/man looks like this:
drwxr-xr-x  2 pgsql  pgsql   512 Sep 26 20:10 man1
drwxr-xr-x  2 pgsql  pgsql   512 Sep 26 20:10 man3
drwxr-xr-x  2 pgsql  pgsql   512 Sep 26 20:10 man5
drwxr-xr-x  2 pgsql  pgsql  1536 Sep 26 20:10 manl

/usr/libexec/makewhatis <LOCALBASE>/pgsql/man
grep "(l)" <LOCALBASE>/pgsql/man/whatis.db 
 -- nothing --

>Fix:
Sorry, not included.
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: