yelp problem

[Adam Weinberger]

>> (05.02.2004 @ 1703 PST): Carsten.Rossow at t-online.de said, in 1.2K: <<
> Hi,
> 
> I have FreeBSD 5.1 with Gnome installed from the packages, and yelp shows 
> all manual pages. A freshly installed 5.2 also works if Gnome was 
> installed from the packages, but after a portupgrade or if  installed 
> Gnome from the ports, the man pages are not shown (not only not shown, but 
> not even in the table of contents).
> 
> I looked all over, and the only things I found was a mail in the archive, 
> advising to add the MANPATH to the environment. As this is not the case on 
> the 5.1 system - where yelp works as deired - I doubt that this is the 
> reason for my problem. How are they found when I'm issuing the man command 
> if the MANPATH was not set somehow?
> 
> I wonder what I am missing. On the 5.1 box, I fond some yelp-related files 
> in /usr/X11R6/libexec (yelp-db2html, yelp-info2html and yelp-man2html) 
> that are not on the 5.2 box. If the port did not install them, how do I 
> get them? What's in the packe the port does not have?
> 
> I'm a little helpless and would appreciate some hints.
>> end of "yelp problem" from Carsten.Rossow at t-online.de <<

Manpage support was removed from the Yelp code.

I'm not pleased about it either.

# Adam


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