windows - What happened to the man pages in latest MinGW?
2014-07
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I have recently (about a month ago) installed the latest MinGW version (the MinGW Installation Manager reports version 0.6.2-beta-20131004-1) and I can't find the man pages.
C:\Users\Me>man gcc
No manual entry for gcc
Everything worked just fine with the MinGW installation I had before (more than a year ago).
I have not changed the MinGW installation path or the PATH variable. (I always use the recommended paths, anyway.)
C:\Users\Me>where gcc
C:\MinGW\bin\gcc.exe
C:\Users\Me>where ls
C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\bin\ls.exe
I have also tried installing several extra packages with the MinGW Installation Manager in the hope of solving the problem (even though I have to admit this was a rather random process), but it didn't work.
Where are the man pages?
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Every time I run man to access a manual page my entire computer freezes for about 30 seconds.
My MANPATH is "/Library/init/zsh/man:/opt/local/share/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/X11/man:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/share/man:/opt/local/man" and my man.conf file looks pretty standard.
When I run man -d man for debugging info I get this:
Reading config file /private/etc/man.conf
Looked whether there exists a message catalog man, but there is none (and for English messages none is needed)
found man directory /usr/share/man
found man directory /usr/local/share/man
found man directory /usr/X11/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/X11/bin --> /usr/X11/man
found manpath map /usr/bin/X11 --> /usr/X11/man
found manpath map /usr/bin/mh --> /usr/share/man
using less -ise as pager
using /usr/bin/less -is as browser
using /bin/cat to dump HTML pages as textadding /Library/init/zsh/man to manpath
adding /opt/local/share/man to manpath
adding /usr/share/man to manpath
adding /usr/local/share/man to manpath
adding /usr/X11/man to manpath
adding /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/share/man to manpath
adding /opt/local/man to manpath
no cat page stored because of nonstandard line length
using default preprocessor sequence
found tbl(1) directive
not executing command: (cd '/usr/share/man' && (echo ".ll 16.1i"; echo ".nr LL 16.1i"; /usr/bin/gunzip -c '/usr/share/man/man1/man.1.gz') | /usr/bin/tbl | /usr/bin/groff -Wall -mtty-char -Tascii -mandoc -c | (less -ise || true))
The computer freezes after "adding /opt/local/man to manpath" and before "no cat page stored because of nonstandard line length", so that might be related to my issue. Unfortunately Googling the "no cat.." message doesn't return anything useful.
Recently I've upgraded to OS X 10.7 and switched from bash to zsh, so those might play into the issue as well. However, using bash as my shell I still have the same issue. Any ideas?