[OS X TeX] TeXLive 2022 manpath issue on mac

[Douglas Stetner]

Hi all,

I have a feeling the symlink magic in the 2022 TexLive install is breaking the makewhatis on the Mac (Monterey 12.6).

After a clean install I get this:

$ man -k xml2pmx
makewhatis: /Library/TeX/texbin/man: Not a directory
xml2pmx: nothing appropriate
$ man -k MusicXML
makewhatis: /Library/TeX/texbin/man: Not a directory
MusicXML: nothing appropriate
$ man xml2pmx
XML2PMX(1)                                                                                                  XML2PMX(1)





DESCRIPTION
      xml2pmx translates MusicXML files to input suitable for PMX processing
...
...
...

So although the man page is found, makewhatis appears to be failing.

The paths seem to exist:
$ ll /Library/TeX/texbin/man
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  wheel  24 Feb 26  2021 /Library/TeX/texbin/man@ -> ../../texmf-dist/doc/man
$ ll /Library/TeX/texbin/man/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  702 root  staff  22464 Sep 25 13:18 man1/
drwxr-xr-x   12 root  wheel    384 Sep 25 13:14 man5/
$ ll /Library/TeX/texbin/man/man1//xml2pmx.1
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  1367 Feb 28  2021 /Library/TeX/texbin/man/man1//xml2pmx.1


Removing /etc/manpaths.d/TeX which contains:
/Library/TeX/Distributions/.DefaultTeX/Contents/Man

makes no difference, 'man -k' still shows the makewhatis error and 'man xml2pmx' still works.

Removing /etc/paths.d/TeX which contains '/Library/TeX/texbin' results in the makewhatis error going away but not seeing the manpages (even if /etc/manpaths.d/TeX is restored)

$ man -k xml2pmx
xml2pmx: nothing appropriate
$ man -k MusicXML
MusicXML: nothing appropriate
$ man xml2pmx
No manual entry for xml2pmx


The final paths appear to be:

$ cd /Library/TeX/texbin/man/
$ touch asdfghjkl
$ mdfind -name asdfghjkl
/usr/local/texlive/2022/texmf-dist/doc/man/asdfghjkl

$ cd /Library/TeX/texbin
$ sudo touch asdfghjkl2
$ mdfind -name asdfghjkl2
/usr/local/texlive/2022/bin/universal-darwin/asdfghjkl2

$ ll /usr/local/texlive/2022/bin/universal-darwin/man
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  wheel  24 Feb 26  2021 /usr/local/texlive/2022/bin/universal-darwin/man@ -> ../../texmf-dist/doc/man
$  ll /usr/local/texlive/2022/bin/universal-darwin/man/
total 0
-rw-r-----    1 root  staff      0 Sep 25 15:55 asdfghjkl
drwxr-xr-x  702 root  staff  22464 Sep 25 13:18 man1/
drwxr-xr-x   12 root  wheel    384 Sep 25 13:14 man5/


Anyone else seeing this?  Not a big deal for me, but it should work and not break 'man'.


Thanks,
Doug