Re: man

["David H. Gutteridge" <david%gutteridge.ca@localhost>]

On Mon, 2022-03-07 at 21:09 -0500, David H. Gutteridge wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Mar 2022 at 10:19:51 -0500, C Chapman wrote:
> > I can't get the -m option to work with man. When I enter
> > 
> > man -m /usr/pkg/heirloom-doctools/man/
> > 
> > man searches the default paths first. The man page says it should do
> > it last.
> > 
> > I am using version 9.2 and the tcsh shell.
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Yes, you've found a regression caused by a code refactoring from
> twelve
> years ago that mistakenly appended rather than prepended the -m
> argument(s) to the search paths. I've fixed that in HEAD earlier this
> evening, and will request a pull-up to the netbsd-9 branch in a few
> days, assuming no fallout (I don't think there should be any).

This has now been pulled up to both the netbsd-8 and netbsd-9 branches,
so it will be in 9.3 (and is of course also available if you're tracking
the branch as 9.2_STABLE).

Regards,

Dave