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 Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 5:28 pm Post subject: makewhatis dont do is job riht |
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Hi, I have run makewhatis severl times, and it does something, but when comeing to use whatis or aprops like whatis gcc, it can't find a thing.
What can I do please? |
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| Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 5:50 pm Post subject: |
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Moved from Installing Gentoo to Other Things Gentoo.
postinstallation problem, so moved here.
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| Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 7:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Well? any one know what to do please? |
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wynn
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| Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 7:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Code: | $ whatis whatis
whatis (1) - search the whatis database for complete words
$ apropos gcc
gccmakedep (1x) - create dependencies in makefiles using 'gcc -M' |
This is what I get here.
Do you have /usr/share/man/whatis and /usr/local/man/whatis? These are the databases created by makewhatis ("man makewhatis" told me  ) |
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| Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 9:10 pm Post subject: |
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| wynn wrote: | | Code: | $ whatis whatis
whatis (1) - search the whatis database for complete words
$ apropos gcc
gccmakedep (1x) - create dependencies in makefiles using 'gcc -M' |
This is what I get here.
Do you have /usr/share/man/whatis and /usr/local/man/whatis? These are the databases created by makewhatis ("man makewhatis" told me ) |
No, and I have the second one, but is empty
What to do please? |
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yabbadabbadont
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| Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 9:35 pm Post subject: |
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Does running, "makewhatis -u", help?
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| Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 6:57 am Post subject: |
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| yabbadabbadont wrote: | | Does running, "makewhatis -u", help? |
No I have tried makewhatis -uv and so on
and nadda, any one? |
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wynn
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| Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 9:07 am Post subject: |
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Some local results:
| Code: | # makewhatis --version
makewhatis from man-1.6b |
| Code: | # makewhatis -h
Usage: makewhatis [-u] [-v] [-w] [manpath] [-c [catpath]]
This will build the whatis database for the man pages
found in manpath and the cat pages found in catpath.
-u: update database with new pages
-v: verbose
-w: use manpath obtained from `man --path`
[manpath]: man directories (default: /usr/local/man:/usr/share/man)
[catpath]: cat directories (default: the first existing
directory in /usr/local/man:/usr/share/man) |
The first should show whether your man pages and makewhatis, which is included in it, are up to date.
The second shows the value of MANPATH and CATPATH that it is using.
"makewhatis -u", as you can see, just looks for any pages newer that the existing whatis and adds them and is probably not going to be useful.
If you run "makewhatis -v" you should get something like
| Code: | about to enter /usr/share/man
adding /usr/share/man/man1/./watch.1.gz
adding /usr/share/man/man1/./pod2text.1.gz
adding /usr/share/man/man1/./perlcc.1.gz
adding /usr/share/man/man1/./perlfunc.1.gz
adding /usr/share/man/man1/./cmp.1.gz
&c. &c. |
I expect, however, that you don't.
As it is a shell script, /usr/sbin/makewhatis, you can get it to display every line as it is executed, which should show where the problem is. To do this you need to edit the file and add
just before the line
| Code: | | program=`basename $0` |
Adding "-x" to the "#|/bin/sh" line doesn't seem to work.
The output here starts
| Code: | +++ basename /usr/sbin/makewhatis
++ program=makewhatis
++ dm=
++ for d in /usr/local/man /usr/share/man
++ '[' -d /usr/local/man ']'
++ '[' x = x ']'
++ dm=/usr/local/man |
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| Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 10:12 pm Post subject: |
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Its weird, I have some things that aprops work, and other that don't for example aprops gcc give me one thing only, and it's not GCC  |
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gi1242
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| Posted: Mon Dec 25, 2006 5:32 am Post subject: |
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The problem here is a stupid bug in the makewhatis install script. The first few lines of /usr/sbin/makewhatis are
| Code: | #
# Generated automatically from makewhatis.in by the
# configure script.
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#!/bin/sh
# makewhatis: create the whatis database |
The line #!/bin/sh should come FIRST!
Normally this will not be a problem if your shell is /bin/sh compatible (e.g. bash). But if you use tcsh, then you will get the above error messages. Make the first line
and your problems should go away .
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gi1242
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| Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 9:09 am Post subject: |
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On digging a little more, it seems that there is a fundamental error the way the makewhatis cronjob is setup. See https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159192.
The problem can be temporarily fixed by running
makewhatis -v -w
as root
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