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I have noticed that /usr/share/man/man3 is missing in my MacOS Ventura installation. It used to be there in the earlier MacOS versions. The other man sections are there. Has anybody seen this issue? Is there a fix? Thanks for any hint.
MacBook Pro Apple Silicon
Any man sections related to development are not included in the Ventura installation. Worse, the CommandLineTools for Xcode 14.1 install their own man pages here, including sections 2, 3 and others:
/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/macOSX13.0.sdk/usr/share/man
These would only be available to you after that installation when you use the MANPATH environment variable to help man find those buried sections:
export MANPATH="/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/macOSX13.0.sdk/usr/share/man"
Once that is exported, you can verify where the man 3 section is located with this:
man -w 3 intro
/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/macOSX13.0.sdk/usr/share/man/man3/intro.3
The MANPATH just appends that path search to the existing default at /usr/share/man.
Those of us accustomed to development on UNIX systems past expect all of the man sections under /usr/share/man, and having to adjust MANPATH now is just plain annoying.
Any man sections related to development are not included in the Ventura installation. Worse, the CommandLineTools for Xcode 14.1 install their own man pages here, including sections 2, 3 and others:
/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/macOSX13.0.sdk/usr/share/man
These would only be available to you after that installation when you use the MANPATH environment variable to help man find those buried sections:
export MANPATH="/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/macOSX13.0.sdk/usr/share/man"
Once that is exported, you can verify where the man 3 section is located with this:
man -w 3 intro
/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/macOSX13.0.sdk/usr/share/man/man3/intro.3
The MANPATH just appends that path search to the existing default at /usr/share/man.
Those of us accustomed to development on UNIX systems past expect all of the man sections under /usr/share/man, and having to adjust MANPATH now is just plain annoying.
This is what I get as per below
Doesn't exist in my installs of Ventura. It also doesn't exist in my installs of Monterey.
Thank you very much for your help, I had just thought it must have got to do with Xcode.
If all you have installed is Xcode, then you should adjust MANPATH to:
export MANPATH="/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/share/man"
/usr/share/man/man3 missing on Ventura