[gmx-users] GMXRC removes trailing colon from existing MANPATH

[Szilárd Páll]

On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 11:18 AM Peter Kroon <p.c.kroon at rug.nl> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> sorry for the late reply, holidays took priority :)
>
> I made a redmine issue here: https://redmine.gromacs.org/issues/2628


Thanks.


> What change would you like me to submit? I don't have a fix other than
> simply appending a colon in my bashrc.
>

The MANPATH is generated at build-time from the
scripts/GMXRC.*.cmakein
input files the result of which in turn get installed. These files need the
one-liner fix ;)

Cheers,
--
Szilard


> Peter
>
>
> On 07-08-18 14:45, Szilárd Páll wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Can you please submit your change to gerrit.gromacs.org -- and perhaps
> it's
> > best if you also file an issue on redmine.gromacs.org with your brief
> > description you posted here?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > --
> > Szilárd
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 2:28 PM Peter Kroon <p.c.kroon at rug.nl> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I noticed that sourcing GMXRC removes any trailing colons from a set
> >> MANPATH environment variable. This colon *is* syntactically significant,
> >> and removing it causes `mandb` to ignore /etc/manpath.config instead of
> >> appending that file:
> >>
> >>
> >>> unset MANPATH
> >>> export MANPATH=/opt/puppetlabs/puppet/share/man:
> >>> # Note the trailing colon
> >>> echo $MANPATH
> >> /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/share/man:
> >>> mandb
> >> mandb: warning: $MANPATH set, appending /etc/manpath.config
> >> ...
> >>> source /usr/local/gromacs-2018.1/bin/GMXRC
> >>> # No more trailing colon
> >>> echo $MANPATH
> >>> /usr/local/gromacs-2018.1/share/man:/opt/puppetlabs/puppet/share/man
> >> mandb: warning: $MANPATH set, ignoring /etc/manpath.config
> >> ...
> >>
> >> Should I also report this on redmine, or is this sufficient?
> >>
> >>
> >> Peter
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Gromacs Users mailing list
> >>
> >> * Please search the archive at
> >> http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists/GMX-Users_List before
> >> posting!
> >>
> >> * Can't post? Read http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists
> >>
> >> * For (un)subscribe requests visit
> >> https://maillist.sys.kth.se/mailman/listinfo/gromacs.org_gmx-users or
> >> send a mail to gmx-users-request at gromacs.org.
>
>
> --
> Gromacs Users mailing list
>
> * Please search the archive at
> http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists/GMX-Users_List before
> posting!
>
> * Can't post? Read http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists
>
> * For (un)subscribe requests visit
> https://maillist.sys.kth.se/mailman/listinfo/gromacs.org_gmx-users or
> send a mail to gmx-users-request at gromacs.org.