From: Francois-Denis Gonthier <neumann@lostwebsite.net>

Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2018 15:01:18 +0300

Subject: [PATCH] Load man-pages from system-wide directory

Patch allows one to use standard man path with erl -man command.

(Erlang manual pages are placed to /usr/share/man/ hierarchy

as required by Debian policy.)

diff --git a/erts/etc/common/erlexec.c b/erts/etc/common/erlexec.c

index 9dba684cbb..b4c5a8413f 100644

--- a/erts/etc/common/erlexec.c

+++ b/erts/etc/common/erlexec.c

@@ -727,8 +727,10 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)

 			error("-man not supported on Windows");

 #else

 			argv[i] = "man";

-			erts_snprintf(tmpStr, sizeof(tmpStr), "%s/man", rootdir);

-			set_env("MANPATH", tmpStr);

+			/*

+			* Conform to erlang-manpages content.

+			*/

+			putenv(strsave("MANSECT=3erl:1:5:7"));

 			execvp("man", argv+i);

 			error("Could not execute the 'man' command.");

 #endif