Mac OS X Update -> module's man in /

[Martin Kissner]

Hello together,

I have updated my Mac OS X from 10.3.7 to 10.3.8 last night.

Today I was surprised to find a directory /man in / , which contains two
subdirs man1 and man3. Inside there are about 50 files which seem to be
related to modules, which I have installed.

Filenames are for example DBI.pm , DBD//mysql.3pm or
DBI//ProfileDumper//Apache.3pm.

Inside the files there is only manual text, but no perl code.

Now my main question is: Where do these files/directories have to go to?
And if anyone knows: Why did this happen; is this common?

Thanks in advance
Martin

 

[Sherm Pendley]

I have updated my Mac OS X from 10.3.7 to 10.3.8 last night.

Today I was surprised to find a directory /man in /

These two things are unrelated. If you list the receipt for the 10.3.8
update package, or look at the time stamps on the files, you'll see that
they were not installed by the update.

Now my main question is: Where do these files/directories have to go to?

If you use 'perldoc' to read Perl docs, they can go to the trash.

If you use 'man', you can either set MANPATH to "/man:/usr/share/man:/usr
X11R6/man" in your environment, or you can move the files under /man to
usr/share/man. Adjusting your environment is a simple, one-time fix. Moving
man pages would have to be done each and every time you install a new
module.

And if anyone knows: Why did this happen; is this common?

Panther's Perl is misconfigured with respect to man paths - it has been from
day one. It's been discussed on the macosx _at_ perl.org list:

http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg05918.html

sherm--

 

[Martin Kissner]

Thank you for your feedback, Sherm.

Sherm Pendley wrote :

These two things are unrelated. If you list the receipt for the 10.3.8
update package, or look at the time stamps on the files, you'll see that
they were not installed by the update.

I did not think the update installed these files, but I thought it might
have moved them to /, although this seemed to be unlikely, too.

If you use 'perldoc' to read Perl docs, they can go to the trash.

I thought so. Just wanted to be sure.

Panther's Perl is misconfigured with respect to man paths - it has been from
day one. It's been discussed on the macosx _at_ perl.org list:

http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg05918.html

Thanks for the link. So I just did not notice the additional /man dir
before.
This misconfiguration has already hit me when trying to install
DBD::mysql.

Regards
Martin