Ah, the old implicit MANPATH trick. Clever. -- Sal smile. On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Enrico Placci wrote: o On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 18:48:57 -0500 (EST) o Salvatore Domenick Desiano <sal@ri.cmu.edu> wrote: o o > o > On Tiger, at least, gnutar and tar are the same program and don't o > o > actually seem to be gnutar (they lack many of the options). o > o o > o On Tiger (10.4) tar is gnutar is GNU tar 1.14 (and supports o > --no-same-owner) o > o > Fascinating. Upon further investigation, the *man pages* for tar on o > Tiger are not gnutar, even though the binaries are. o > o o I don't think you get it right... o This is my situation (and yours is probably similar): o I have bsd tar in /usr/bin/tar and bsd tar manual o in /usr/share/man/man1/tar.1 . If I type "man tar" I get bsd man , but o if i run tar i get gnutar, just like you. Here is the explanation: o o enrico@esoel:enrico$ echo $PATH o /opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/Users/enrico/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin o enrico@esoel:enrico$ dpkg -L tar |grep man o enrico@esoel:enrico$ which tar o /sw/bin/tar o o Fink path comes before system path but fink (gnu) tar doesn't have a o manpage. o o Bye o Enrico o o o PS Pay attention to your dependencies... and to your paths ;-) o _______________________________________________ o macports-dev mailing list o macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org o http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev o o -- -------------- Salvatore Domenick Desiano Doctoral Candidate Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University