[info-performer] Man pages on SuSE Linux 9.0

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Simon.Mills++at++esa.int
Date: 04/15/2005 07:28:00

Hi,

I'm not able to access Performer man pages on SuSE Linux 9.0 (we had to move
from RedHat for several reasons). I get a warning message about "bogus
filename". It seems this issue has been reported before, see below. Is there
any chance we will get a fix for this or is there a workaround?

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From: Jeroen Akershoek (jeroena++at++sara.nl)
Date: 09/04/2003 00:27:12

> Hi,
>
> I'm using performer on SUSE-Linux (version 7.3 and 8.2) and have some
> trouble
> accessing the performer man pages. Installation of performer puts the man
> pages
> in /usr/man which i have included in the MANPATH environment variable.
>
> If i do something like "man pfBuffer" i always get some error messages
> like:
>
> man: warning: /usr/man/man3/pfBuffer.3pf.C++.gz: ignoring bogus filename
>
> Does anybody know how to set up my linux system to access the man pages ?
>
> Some configuration seems to be done via the /etc/manpath.config file. Do i
> have
> to change this file ?

The normal man, as supplied with SUSE and Debian and probably some other
distributions can't be configured (afaik) to handle that filename convention.
I already reported this multiple times to the Performer group and thus far
have only got "Yes, we'll need to fix that" :)

I wrote a little shell-script that filters out the C pages if there's a C++
page for it and renames the whole bunch to get it working. It's ugly, but it
works. Drop me a mail if you're interested.

Regards,
 Jeroen 

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Jeroen Akershoek, VR Specialist
SARA Computing and Network Services
tel: +31 20 5923000     fax:   +31 20 6683167

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Regards, Simon
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Simon Mills
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European Space Agency (ESA/ESTEC)               Fax: +31 (0)71 565 5420
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