Where are OS X man pages stored?
Solution 1:
The man pages on MacOS X are located in /usr/share/man
.
Checking a nearby system, the $MANPATH variable's contents look like: /usr/share/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/X11/share/man
As for the application you compiled, how did you install the binary? Was this installed from a basic tarball?
Solution 2:
On Mac OS X, the /private/etc/manpaths
file is the default file that will tell man where to look for manpages.
On my machine, it contains two paths:
/usr/share/man
/usr/local/share/man
Solution 3:
As mentioned above - the path is /usr/share/man
As an option - you can install iftop using homebrew
- then it will store man pages in /usr/local/Cellar/iftop/0.17/share/man
And to specify a right path to man pages during the install from sources - you can pass --mandir=
parameter to ./configure
script
i.e. something like
./configure --disable-debug --prefix=/usr/local --mandir=/usr/share//man
and then do make install