New subject: [Bug 456593] /usr/bin/man cannot handle a trailing slash in MANPATH

4 Dec 2008

      https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=456593

           Summary: /usr/bin/man cannot handle a trailing slash in MANPATH
           Product: openSUSE 11.0
           Version: Final
          Platform: x86-64
        OS/Version: openSUSE 11.0
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: P5 - None
         Component: Basesystem
        AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com
        ReportedBy: james.faulkner@yale.edu
         QAContact: qa@suse.de
          Found By: ---

The following commands:
export MANPATH=/usr/share/man
man 2 getrlimit

produce the getrlimit(2) manpage, as expected.

However this:
export MANPATH=/usr/share/man/
man 2 getrlimit

produces an empty manual page.  It seems that the version of man included with
OpenSUSE 11.0 cannot handle trailing slashes in MANPATH.

I checked a RHEL4 machine, and that produces the correct manpage whether or not
there is a trailing slash in MANPATH.  OpenSUSE should be fixed so that
trailing slashes do not break man.

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