Curious problem with man FIXED but Alliance install is BROKEN

[jdow]

From: "jdow" <jdow at earthlink.net>
Sent: Wednesday, 2008, August 13 19:24


> F8
> "man man" does not find anything.
> "man -M /usr/share/man man" finds the man file for man just fine.
> Directory permissions look fine. Config files are identical with
> another F8 machine.
> ===8<---
> [root at thing ~]# man -d man
> Reading config file /etc/man.config
> found man directory /usr/share/man
> found man directory /usr/local/man
> found man directory /usr/local/share/man
> found man directory /usr/X11R6/man
> found manpath map /bin --> /usr/share/man
> found manpath map /sbin --> /usr/share/man
> found manpath map /usr/bin --> /usr/share/man
> found manpath map /usr/sbin --> /usr/share/man
> found manpath map /usr/local/bin --> /usr/local/share/man
> found manpath map /usr/local/sbin --> /usr/local/share/man
> found manpath map /usr/X11R6/bin --> /usr/X11R6/man
> found manpath map /usr/bin/X11 --> /usr/X11R6/man
> found manpath map /usr/bin/mh --> /usr/share/man
> 
> using /usr/bin/less -is as pager
> 
> using /usr/bin/less -is as browser
> 
> using /bin/cat to dump HTML pages as text
> adding /usr/lib/alliance/man to manpath
^^^^^^^^^^^^^ magic line ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> No manual entry for man

After considerable digging I found a series of errors with the
alliance-libs installation.

===8<--- From the end of alc_env.sh
# System environment variables.
 PATH=$PATH:$ALLIANCE_TOP/bin:
 export PATH

# Only needed on Solaris (included in /etc/ld.so.conf under Linux).
 if [ -z "${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}" ]; then
   LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ALLIANCE_TOP/lib
 else
   LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$ALLIANCE_TOP/lib:
 fi
 export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

 if [ -z "${MANPATH}" ]; then
   MANPATH=$ALLIANCE_TOP/man
 else
   MANPATH=$MANPATH:$ALLIANCE_TOP/man:
 fi
 export MANPATH

# fixing *** ERROR *** : Variable MBK_SPI_MODEL not found.
  MBK_SPI_MODEL=$ALLIANCE_TOP/etc/spimodel.cfg;      export MBK_SPI_MODEL

===8<--- Below works AND even gives the alliance man entries.
# System environment variables.
 PATH=$PATH:$ALLIANCE_TOP/bin
 export PATH

# Only needed on Solaris (included in /etc/ld.so.conf under Linux).
 if [ -z "${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}" ]; then
   LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ALLIANCE_TOP/lib
 else
   LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$ALLIANCE_TOP/lib
 fi
 export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

# if [ -z "${MANPATH}" ]; then
#   MANPATH=$ALLIANCE_TOP/man
# else
#   MANPATH=$MANPATH:$ALLIANCE_TOP/man
# fi
# export MANPATH

# fixing *** ERROR *** : Variable MBK_SPI_MODEL not found.
  MBK_SPI_MODEL=$ALLIANCE_TOP/etc/spimodel.cfg;      export MBK_SPI_MODEL
===8<---

Note the extra colons.

ALso note the definition of MANPATH which overrides the settings in
/etc/man.config. If the alliance people are reading the list maybe they
will get the message. I didn't see an address on their website for bugs.

Maybe if somebody else gets curious about laying out VLSI tools and
installs Alliance they might find this and learn why man died.

{^_^}