Installation of Man
There are three patches for Man. The first patch comments out one of the
lines in the man.conf file (MANPATH /usr/man) to
prevent redundant results when using programs such as
whatis:
patch -Np1 -i ../man-&man-manpath-patch-version;-manpath.patch
The second patch adds the -R option to the
PAGER variable so that escape sequences are
handled properly:
patch -Np1 -i ../man-&man-pager-patch-version;-pager.patch
The last patch prevents problem when man pages not formatted
with more than 80 columns are used in conjunction with recent releases
of groff:
patch -Np1 -i ../man-&man-80cols-patch-version;-80cols.patch
The paths to some programs are written into man's files.
Unfortunately, the configure script picks the last location in PATH
rather than the first place a program is found. By appending
/usr/bin:/bin to PATH for the
./configure command, we ensure that man doesn't
use the programs in the /static
directory.
Prepare Man to be compiled:
PATH=$PATH:/usr/bin:/bin \
./configure -default -confdir=/etc
Continue with compiling the package:
make
And finish off installing the package:
make install
If you wish to disable SGR escape sequences, you should
edit the man.conf file and add the -c argument
to nroff.
You may want to take a look at the man hint
at , which deals with formatting
and compression issues for man pages.